[Histling-l] Call for papers: Historical-Comparative Linguistics for Language Revitalization - Deadline: Jan. 31, 2019

[Jorge Rosés Labrada]

Dear colleagues,

Please see below a call for papers for a symposium to be held at the next LSA
Summer Institute at UC Davis.
<https://lsa2019.ucdavis.edu/weekend-conferences-symposia/> If you are
using historical-comparative methodologies in your language
revitalization/reclamation work or if you are using data from
revitalization/reclamation contexts to study language change, please
consider submitting to this symposium.

All the best,
Jorge (also on behalf of Justin Spence, UC Davis)


*CALL FOR PAPERS*

Title: *Historical-Comparative Linguistics for Language Revitalization *

Date: 29-30 June 2019
Location: Davis, CA, USA
Contact Person: Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada
Email: HistLxRevitalization at ucdavis.edu

Deadline: *31 January 2019 *

Meeting Description:

The theme of this symposium is connections between historical-comparative
linguistics and language revitalization - broadly speaking, how
historical-comparative methods can be brought to bear to benefit language
revitalization, and also how the study of languages undergoing
revitalization can inform questions of general interest in the study of
language change. Included as part of the 2019 LSA Linguistic Institute
(hosted at UC Davis), the symposium will bring a group of scholars and
practitioners whose language revitalization and reclamation work draws on
historical-comparative methods.

Call for Papers:

Recent scholarship has explored the mutually beneficial relationship
between historical-comparative linguistics and language documentation.
However, language revitalization has been largely absent from these
discussions even though historical-comparative linguistics has figured
prominently in the revitalization and reclamation of endangered languages
and dormant languages that are known principally through archival
documentation collected in the past. In this symposium, we propose to
address this gap by bringing together a group of scholars and practitioners
whose language revitalization and reclamation work draws on
historical-comparative methods. We specifically propose to focus on six
questions:


   1. How can historical-comparative linguistics help to fill gaps, both
   lexical and grammatical, in the existing documentation of formerly dormant
   languages?
   2. How can historical-comparative linguistics inform the evaluation of
   existing documentation to be mobilized for the creation of teaching
   materials?
   3. How can the study of languages undergoing revitalization and
   reclamation expand the empirical scope of historical-comparative
   linguistics and shed new light on questions of general interest in the
   field?
   4. How can the corpus of documentation relevant to revitalizing a given
   language be expanded by working with speakers of related languages, thus
   supporting the creation of richer learning materials?
   5. What is the value of comparative philological work based on older
   documentation for language revitalization?
   6. How can we more effectively train revitalization practitioners in
   historical-comparative linguistics?


By focusing on these and other ways in which historical-comparative
linguistics can aid language revitalization and reclamation efforts, we
hope to reach a wide audience of both linguists and communities currently
working towards promoting their languages. This workshop will thus
contribute to ongoing efforts aimed at promoting the maintenance of the
world’s indigenous languages.

Invited Keynote Speakers:

- Marianne Mithun (UC Santa Barbara)
- Pam Munro (UCLA)

The conference invites papers addressing questions related to connections
between historical linguistics and language revitalization, including but
not limited the ones outlined above. While the primary focus of the
conference is on the comparative part of ''historical-comparative
linguistics,'' we also encourage abstracts from other areas of historical
linguistics, including topics such as language and dialect contact and
sociolinguistic dimensions of the diffusion of linguistic innovations,
insofar as these may also pertain to language revitalization.

Abstract Submission:

Anonymous 1-page abstracts (12-point Times New Roman, single spaced, 1''
margins) should be submitted in pdf format. References and examples may
appear on a second page. Submit to HistLxRevitalization at ucdavis.edu

The deadline for submissions is *January 31, 2019*. Notification of
acceptance will be made by approximately *February 28, 2019*.

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Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada
Assistant Professor, Indigenous Language Sustainability
Department of Linguistics
University of Alberta
Tel: (+1) 780-492-5698
jrosesla at ualberta.ca

*The University of Alberta acknowledges that we are located on Treaty 6
territory, **and respects the history, languages, and cultures of the First
Nations, Métis, Inuit, **and all First Peoples of Canada, whose presence
continues to enrich our institution.*
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