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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Language corpora and dialectal variation in a historical perspective<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Workshop at ICHL27, Santiago de Chile, 18-22 August 2025</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Organizers: Andres 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" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">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 </span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">(Bartoli 1925, Andersen 1988).
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">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).
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#202122">Further
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#202122">Against this backdrop, the availability of
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">new corpora and databases that allow accessing historical data of individual languages sorted by geographical origin,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#202122">
along with the application of technological developments, such as </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">GIS software,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#202122">
are</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> facilitating renewed historical investigations that consider the spatial factor (Alcorn, Kopaczyk, Los & Molineaux 2019).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Some suggested topics are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Different models of visualization of language variants on the physical space.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:#0D0D0D;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Useful sources to create corpora for historical dialectology:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white">
historical documents, newspapers, toponyms, social networks.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:#0D0D0D;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Corpus-based investigations that illustrate with specific case studies the diffusion of linguistic changes on the physical space.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Methods to integrate spatial and social information onto historical corpora.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Application of computational techniques, such as probabilistic methods, to discern dialect areas in historical data.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Studies based on synchronic data (e.g. from online social networks) that can shed light onto historical processes.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Abstracts of no more than 500 words (excluding references) should be sent to Andrés Enrique-Arias (</span><a href="mailto:andres.enrique@uib.es"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">andres.enrique@uib.es</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">)
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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">References:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-35.45pt">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Alcorn, Rhona, Joanna Kopaczyk, Bettelou Los & Benjamin Molineaux, eds. 2019.
<i>Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age</i>. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-35.45pt">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Andersen, Henning. 1988. Center and periphery: adoption, diffusion, and spread. In Jacek Fisiak (ed.),
<i>Historical Dialectology, Regional and Social</i>, 39-83. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-35.45pt">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Auer, Peter & Jürgen E. Schmidt, eds. 2010.
<i>Language and Space. An International Handbook of Linguistic Variation</i>, 649–667. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-35.45pt">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Bartoli, Matteo G. 1925.
<i>Introduzione alla Neolinguistica (princìpi--scopi--metodi)</i>. Genéve: L.S. Olschki.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-35.45pt">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Chambers, J.K.& Peter Trudgill. 1980.
<i>Dialectology</i>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-35.45pt">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Kortmann, Bernd. 2003. D<i>ialectology meets Typology: Dialect Grammar from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective</i>.
</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197327<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-35.45pt">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Muysken, Pieter.
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">2008.
<i>From linguistic areas to areal linguistics</i>. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-35.45pt">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Noonan, Michael. 2010. Genetic Classification and Language Contact. In Raymond Hickey (ed.),
<i>The Handbook of Language Contact</i>, 48-65. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-35.45pt">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Wolfram, Walt & Natalie Schilling-Estes. 2003. Dialectology and Linguistic Diffusion. In Joseph Brian & Richard Janda (eds.),
<i>The Handbook of Historical Linguistics</i>, 713–735. Oxford: Blackwell.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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