From paul.widmer at uzh.ch Wed Jan 2 13:32:47 2019 From: paul.widmer at uzh.ch (paul widmer) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 19:32:47 +0100 Subject: [Histling-l] PhD and postdoc positions at UZH Message-ID: Please forward and distribute! From paul.widmer at uzh.ch Wed Jan 2 13:35:18 2019 From: paul.widmer at uzh.ch (paul widmer) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 19:35:18 +0100 Subject: [Histling-l] Fwd: PhD and postdoc positions at UZH In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <9023666f-4df0-7ae0-4355-6bc9ac1d8bf4@uzh.ch> + attachments -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: PhD and postdoc positions at UZH Datum: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 19:32:47 +0100 Von: paul widmer An: histling-l at mailman.yale.edu Please forward and distribute! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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English speaking teachers, address terms in Middle English and Anglo Norman, Spanish in London?s linguistic landscape, translanguaging and ideologies in Japanese heritage language schools, women?s agency in video games. The seminars take place on even week Wednesdays at 16:00 in Room UG04 in our building on 309 Regent Street W1B 2HW with the first seminar for this semester on Wednesday 30 January by Martin Dewey (King?s College London). Everyone is welcome to attend. We are looking forward to seeing you there. With best wishes, Petros ?? Dr Petros Karatsareas Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics Course Leader for MA English Language Co-Director of Cyprus Centre @ Westminster University of Westminster School of Humanities 309 Regent Street London W1B 2HW http://westminster.academia.edu/PetrosKaratsareas | orcid.org/0000-0001-5339-4136 | @pkaratsareas Greek Cypriot London: Camden to Enfield on the 29 bus project with Athena Mandis Being Human Festival website BBC3 Free Thinking programme Islington Gazette piece CYBC (???) coverage New publications: ?The fragile future of the Cypriot Greek language in the UK?, British Academy Review ?Attitudes towards Cypriot Greek and Standard Modern Greek in London?s Greek Cypriot community?, International Journal of Bilingualism The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ELL Seminar Programme ? 20182019 Semester 2.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 80321 bytes Desc: ELL Seminar Programme ? 20182019 Semester 2.pdf URL: From engjw at cc.au.dk Sat Jan 12 12:55:14 2019 From: engjw at cc.au.dk (Johanna Wood) Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 17:55:14 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Second call for papers; : Extended deadline: Indigenous Languages of North and Central America Message-ID: <31b6fb1fe11e4de6a372a10dfe801f58@Exch08.uni.au.dk> Comparative Approaches to the Diachronic Morpho-Syntax of the Indigenous Languages of North and Central America SECOND Call for Papers ? 4 June 2019 ? Arizona State University The diachronic study of indigenous languages has been challenging because of the limitations of earlier material. However, a lot of work done in order to understand the synchrony of a construction has also informed diachrony. Comparative work on different languages in the same family has helped reconstruct earlier stages, for example, Kroeber?s (1999) and Davis? (2005) work on negatives followed by clausal complements in Salish and Langacker?s (1977) reconstruction of Uto-Aztecan phenomena which uses comparative data to find earlier stages. Munro (1976) and Gordon (1986), while synchronic, provide many reconstructions for Yuman. Mithun (2016) is another illustration of how comparative data can shed light on changes in a variety of phenomena, such as negatives, pronominals, demonstratives, and distributives. Also, Rice (2008) applies a comparative approach to noun incorporation in Athabaskan. A somewhat different approach to the diachronic questions is to employ internal reconstruction, for example Giv?n (2000) gives a possible diachrony of the Tolowa Athabaskan verb complex. The purpose of the workshop is to show how synchronic or diachronic comparative research can inform the diachronic morpho-syntax of indigenous languages. With these languages, it is especially hard to separate syntax from morphology and, comparing languages in one family, the syntax is seen to `become? morphology (Giv?n 1971). The theoretical framework for the workshop is open. The workshop will be held on 4 June 2019 before the Diachronic Generative Syntax conference (5-7 June 2019) with which it will share a registration website. Keynote speaker for the Workshop Pamela Munro, UCLA Abstracts for the workshop are invited for 30-minute presentations (followed by 10 minutes of discussion). Abstracts must not exceed two pages in length, including examples and references (12 pt font). Submission is limited to one single-authored and one co-authored abstract per author, or two co-authored abstracts, whether for the main conference or for the workshop, or both. Abstracts must be anonymous. Abstracts for the workshop should be sent to ellyvangelderen at asu.edu. Registration details: TBA NEW deadline for submission: 18 February 2019 Organizing Committee: Elly van Gelderen, Johanna Wood, and Angela Schrader. If you have questions or comments, please contact ellyvangelderen at asu.edu References Davis, Henry 2005. On the Syntax and Semantics of Negation in Salish. International Journal of American Linguistics 71.1: 1-55. Givo?n, Talmy 1971. Historical syntax and synchronic morphology: An archaelogist's field trip. Chicago Linguistic Society 7: 394-415. Giv?n, Talmy 2000. Internal Reconstruction; as method, as theory. In Spike Gildea (ed.), Reconstructing Grammar, 107-159. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Gordon, Lynn 1986. Maricopa Morphology and Syntax. Berkeley: University of California Press. Kroeber, Paul 1999. The Salish Language Family. Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press. Langacker, Ronald 1977. Studies in Uto-Aztecan Grammar, I. Arlington: SIL. Mithun, Marianne 2016. What cycles when and why? In Elly van Gelderen (ed), Cyclical Change Continued, 19-45. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Munro, Pamela 1976. Mojave Syntax. New York: Garland Publishing. Rice, Keren 2008. On incorporation in Athapaskan languages. In Th?rhallur Eyth?rsson (ed.). Grammatical change and linguistic theory: The Rosendal papers, 375? 409. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Johanna L. Wood, Associate Professor | Lektor Emerita phd | English Linguistics Depatment of English, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University Jens Chr. Skous Vej 4, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark | 4022 E. Thistle Landing Dr. Phoenix, AZ 85044 USA +1(480) 831-0119 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The corpus analysis provides evidence of how registers can inform us about the history of English, as it traces and compares the usage and stylistic drifts of phrasal verbs across ten different genres - drama, fiction, journals, diaries, letters, medicine, news, science, sermons, and trial proceedings. The study also sheds new light on the morpho-syntactic and semantic features of phrasal verbs, proposing a new approach to the category, considering not only on their grammatical features, but also their historical development, by discussing the category in terms of a number of central mechanisms of language change. Table of contents and further information accessible at: http://admin.cambridge.org/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/english-phrasal-verb-1650present-history-stylistic-drifts-and-lexicalisation?format=HB Best wishes, Paula Rodr?guez-Puente Departamento de Filolog?a Inglesa, Francesa y Alemana Universidad de Oviedo Campus El Mil?n C/ Amparo Pedregal s/n 33011 Oviedo Tlf. 985-104570 http://www.usc-vlcg.es/PRP.htm https://uniovi.academia.edu/PaulaRodr%C3%ADguezPuente https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=I4axNDUAAAAJ&hl=es -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Benjamin.Molineaux at ed.ac.uk Sat Feb 2 17:36:35 2019 From: Benjamin.Molineaux at ed.ac.uk (MOLINEAUX RESS Ben) Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2019 22:36:35 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] New Volume: Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age Message-ID: <07BF9DEA-6B8A-4C96-946F-612B099CD11F@ed.ac.uk> Dear Colleagues, I just want to quickly point you to a new volume that may be of interest to many of you: Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age (eds. Rhona Alcorn, Joanna Kopaczyk, Bettelou Los & Benjamin Molineaux) Edinburgh University Press https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-historical-dialectology-in-the-digital-age-hb.html A survey of applications of digital methods and tools to explore the linguistic features of regional varieties in historical texts Drawing on the resources created by the Institute of Historical Dialectology at the University of Edinburgh (now the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics), such as eLALME (the electronic version A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English), LAEME (A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English) and LAOS (A Linguistic Atlas of Older Scots), this volume illustrates how traditional methods of historical dialectology can benefit from new methods of data-collection to test out theoretical and empirical claims. In showcasing the results that these resources can yield in the digital age, the book highlights novel methods for presenting, mapping and analysing the quantitative data of historical dialects, and sets the research agenda for future work in this field. Bringing together a range of distinguished researchers, the book sets out the key corpus-building strategies for working with regional manuscript data at different levels of linguistic analysis including syntax, morphology, phonetics and phonology. The chapters also show the ways in which the geographical spread of phonological, morphological and lexical features of a language can be used to improve our assessment of the geographical provenance of historical texts. Table of Contents: 1 Historical Dialectology and the Angus McIntosh Legacy Rhona Alcorn, Joanna Kopaczyk, Bettelou Los and Benjamin Molineaux Part 1 Creating and Mining Digital Resources 2 A Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English Robert Truswell, Rhona Alcorn, James Donaldson and Joel Wallenberg 3 Approaching Transition Scots from a Micro-perspective; The Dunfermline Corpus, 1573?1723 Klaus Hofmann 4 Early Spelling Evidence for Scots L-vocalisation: A Corpus-based Approach Benjamin Molineaux, Joanna Kopaczyk, Warren Maguire, Rhona Alcorn, Vasilis Karaiskos and Bettelou Los Part 2 Segmental Histories 5 Old and Middle English Spellings for OE hw-, with Special Reference to the ?qu-? Type: In Celebration of LAEME, (e)LALME, LAOS and CoNE Margaret Laing and Roger Lass 6 The Development of Old English ?: The Middle English Spelling Evidence Gjertrud F. Stenbrenden 7 The Development of Old English eo/?o and the Systematicity of Middle English Spelling Merja Stenroos 8 Examining the Evidence for Phonemic Affricates: Middle English /t??/, /d??/ or [t-?], [d-?]? Donka Minkova Part 3 Placing Features in Context 9 The Predictability of {S} Abbreviation in Older Scots Manuscripts According to Stem-final Littera Daisy Smith 10 An East Anglian Poem in a London Manuscript? The Date and Dialect of The Court of Love in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.19 Ad Putter 11 ?He was a good hammer, was he?: Gender as Marker for South-Western Dialects of English. A Corpus-based Study from a Diachronic Perspective Trinidad Guzm?n-Gonz?lez All the best, Ben ---- Benjamin J. Molineaux, DPhil Oxon Leverhulme Early Career Fellow The Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics The University of Edinburgh Web: http://www.homepages.ed.ac.uk/bmolinea/ +44 (0)131 6 506977 Out now: Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age, EUP (with R. Alcorn, B. Los and J. Kopaczyk) The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rodriguezppaula at uniovi.es Thu Feb 7 06:07:19 2019 From: rodriguezppaula at uniovi.es (PAULA RODRIGUEZ PUENTE) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 11:07:19 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] New publication: Corpus-based research on variation in English legal discourse. Message-ID: New publication on the synchrony and diachrony of English legal discourse Dear colleagues, Please find below and attached information on a new monograph on English legal discourse past and present that has just come out: Teresa Fanego & Paula Rodr?guez-Puente, eds. 2019. Corpus-based research on variation in English legal discourse. (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 91). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. viii + 294 pp. ISBN: 9789027202352. ?This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the research carried out over the past thirty years in the vast field of legal discourse. The focus is on how such research has been influenced and shaped by developments in corpus linguistics and register analysis, and by the emergence from the mid 1990s of historical pragmatics as a branch of pragmatics concerned with the scrutiny of historical texts in their context of writing. The five chapters in Part I (together with the introductory chapter) offer a wide spectrum of the latest approaches to the synchronic analysis of cross-genre and cross-linguistic variation in legal and parliamentary discourse. Part II addresses diachronic variation, illustrating how a diversity of methods, such as multi-dimensional analysis, move analysis, collocation analysis, and Darwinian models of language evolution can uncover new understandings of diachronic linguistic phenomena.? Further information accessible at: https://benjamins.com/catalog/scl.91 Best wishes, Paula Rodr?guez-Puente Departamento de Filolog?a Inglesa, Francesa y Alemana Universidad de Oviedo Campus El Mil?n C/ Amparo Pedregal s/n 33011 Oviedo Tlf. 985-104570 http://www.usc-vlcg.es/PRP.htm https://uniovi.academia.edu/PaulaRodr%C3%ADguezPuente https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=I4axNDUAAAAJ&hl=es -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Foscari?, Venice > > Michael Daniel, HSE, Moscow > > Giuliana Giusti, University ?Ca? Foscari?, Venice > > Riho Gr?nthal, University of Helsinki > > Tuomas Huumo, University of Turku > > Iv?n Igartua, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz > > Tabea Ihsane, University of Geneva > > Silvia Luraghi, University of Pavia > > Petra Sleeman, University of Amsterdam > > Anne Tamm, K?roli G?sp?r University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, > Budapest > > > > > > *Call for papers* > > > > Abstracts are invited for oral and/or poster presentation. > > Abstracts must be anonymous and no longer than two pages, 12 pt single > spaced in pdf format. > > Please submit your abstract through Easychair: > https://easychair.org/cfp/Partitives2 > > > > > > *Important dates* > > > > - Deadline for submission: 31 March 2019 > - Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2019 > - Workshop: 2 September 2019 > > > > > > *Background* > > > > The term ?partitive? has been used in linguistic literature in reference > to different types of linguistic items (morphemes and/or constructions). In > the first place, partitive may refer to partitive nominal constructions, > codifying the part-whole relation, as in *I drank some of the wine from > that bottle*, or to pseudo-partitive nominal constructions, as in *I > drank a glass of wine* (Koptjevskaja-Tamm 2001: 527). > > In contrast to these two well-described types of construction, other items > that are also referred to as partitives have, until recently, never > received a unified treatment, in spite of striking similarities. Such > partitive elements include partitive cases, as in Finnish or Estonian, > partitive determiners, as in Basque, French and Italian, and partitive > pronouns, as in Germanic and Romance languages. > > (1) *Elmeri* *l?ys-i mansiko-i-ta.* > > Elmer find-3sg.pst strawberry-pl-par [Finnish] > > (2) *Elmer ha trovato* *delle* > *fragole.* > > Elmer have.3sg.prs find.pst.ptcp art.par.f.pl > strawberry(f).pl [Italian] > > ?Elmer found some strawberries.? > > In (1) and (2) the NPs *mansikoita* and *delle fragole* ?some > strawberries? refer to an indefinite quantity of not previously identified > items, contrary to partitive nominal constructions and do not even qualify > as pseudo-partitive nominal constructions (Luraghi/Huumo 2014). Partitive > pronouns refer to indefinite quantities, as *ne *in (3). > > (3) *Elmer ne ha > trovate* *molte.* > > Elmer par.pron have.3sg.prs find.pst.ptcp.f.pl > many.f.pl [Italian] > > ?Elmer found many (of them).? > > A number of recent publications have highlighted cross-linguistic and > typological similarities of partitive elements, including cases, > partitively used genitives or ablatives, determiners, and pronouns > (Luraghi/Huumo 2014, Ihsane/Stark fothc.). Research on the rise of > partitive elements has shown their relation to other linguistic items and > constructions. For example, the French partitive article is the outcome of > the fusion of the genitive/ablative preposition *de* with the definite > article, and its diachrony can be traced down in historical sources > (Carlier 2007). In in Finnic languages (Wickman 1955: 27), the partitive > case ending has been shown to have originated out of older ablative cases > or postpositions. The partitive use of the genitive case is typical of > Ancient Indo-European languages as well. Remarkably, some of these > languages feature a separate ablative case, the development is partly > different, and the partitive meaning seems to be directly connected with > the genitive, not necessarily involving the ablative (see Luraghi/Kittil? > 2014:49-53). Hence, more research on diachrony is needed. Research on > language contact suggests that the extension of partitive elements may be > an areal phenomenon (Bjarnad?ttir/De Smit 2013, Ser?ant 2015), and that > partitive elements may constitute a characteristic but up to now not > acknowledged feature of Standard Average European (Luraghi/De Smijt/Ig?rtua > forthc.). In the Oceanic area available indefinite partitives show a > different extension and possibly different diachronic developments from > European partitive elements (Budd 2014), which would also be worth > investigating more in depth. > > Moreover, dialectal variation in virtually all areas in which languages > show partitive elements is under-investigated, and especially non-standard > varieties deserve more accurate and in-depth treatment. In several areas, > data are missing where native speakers of the dialects are disappearing. > Research on contact among languages of different genetic affiliation and > contact among varieties, including standard and sub-standard, of the same > language is of paramount importance for the understanding of both > diachronic change and synchronic variation (e.g. Cerruti/Regis forthc.). > Partitive determiners may exist in Luxembourgish, possibly as a contact > phenomenon, but available descriptions are superficial, and confuse > different constructions. Romance languages possessing partitive determiners > also have (clitic) partitive pronominals (Ihsane 2013), but from a > comparative perspective it is unclear whether partitive pronominals that > also occur in Germanic varieties (cf. Glaser 1992), have the same syntactic > distribution and meaning(s) as Modern Romance ones*.* In this > perspective, learners? varieties also deserve attention, as they can help > shed light on how interference between languages with and without partitive > elements operates. > > > > > > *Possible topics * > > > > - The rise of partitive cases, pronouns and determiners: origin of the > development, grammaticalization, constructional change. > - Partitives and indefiniteness: Moravcsik (1978: 272) mentions among > typical semantic correlates of partitives the definitness-indefinitness of > the noun phrase. How does this function of partitives emerge, and how does > it correlate with the morphological status of the partitive element (case > marker vs. determiner, cf. Luraghi/Kittil? 2014: 20-27). > - What is the relation between partitive elements and other markers of > NP indefiniteness, e.g. indefinite articles? Is the relation the same in > different linguistic areas? > - How specific cases (genitives, ablatives, ...) develop into > partitive markers and possible constrains on ensuing syncretism: what is > the relation between the genitive, the partitive and the ablative in > languages that feature distinct cases? Do other cases e.g. locatives, or > other determiners e.g. the numeral one/indefinite article (see Budd 2014 on > Oceanic languages) also develop into partitives? > - Partitive elements deriving from case markers (cases, adpositions) > do not show the typical function of case markers to indicate > grammatical relations (Moravcsik 1978, Luraghi 2003, Luraghi/Kittil? 2014 > among others). How does this shift come about precisely? > - Contact induced change and the rise or loss of partitive elements as > documented in historical varieties (e.g. Ibero-Romance, see Carlier/Lemiroy > 2014) > - Dialectal variation, including field studies and documentation of > vernacular and sub-standard varieties of poorly documented languages. > - The acquisition of partitives: bilingual speakers and learners. How > are partitive elements acquired? Do bilingual speakers of languages that > feature different types of partitive elements show interference in their > use of partitive elements? > > > > > > *References* > > > > Bjarnad?ttir, Valger?ur and Merlijn De Smit. 2013. Primary argument > case-marking in Baltic and Finnic. *Baltu Filologija* 22:1. 31?65. > > Budd, Peter. 2014. Partitives in Oceanic languages. Luraghi/Huumo*, *523?561. > > > Carlier, Anne. 2007. From preposition to Article: the grammaticalization > of the French partitive. *Studies in Language* 31(1). 1?49. > > Carlier, Anne and Beatrice Lamiroy. 2014. The gramaticalization of the > prepositional partitive in Ro- mance. In S. Luraghi e T. Huumo (eds.), *Partitive > Case and Related Categories*. Berlino: Mou- ton de Gruyter. 477-519. > > Cerruti, Massimo and Riccardo Regis. Forthcoming. Partitive determiners in > Piedmontese: a case of language varia- tion and change in a contact > setting. In Ihsane/Stark, fothcoming*.* > > Glaser, Elvira. 1992. Umbau partitiver Strukturen in der Geschichte des > Deutschen. *Sprachwissenschaft* 17:2. 113-132. > > Ihsane, Tabea. 2013. *En* pronominalization in French and the structure > of nominal expressions. *Syntax* 16(3). 217?249. > > Ihsane, Tabea and Elisabeth Stark (eds.). Forthcoming. *Shades of > Partitivity: Formal and areal properties*. Special Issue in *Linguistics*. > > Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. 2001. ?A piece of the cake? and ?a cup of tea?. > In *Circum-Baltic Languages*. Volume 2: *Grammar and Typology*, ?sten > Dahl & Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (eds). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, > 523-568 > > Luraghi, Silvia 2003. *On the Meaning of Prepositions and Cases. A Study > of the Expression of Semantic Roles in Ancient Greek*. Amsterdan: > Benjamins. > > Luraghi, Silvia & Tuomas Huumo (eds.). 2014. *Partitive cases and related > categories*. Berlin. > > Luraghi, Silvia and Seppo Kittil?. 2014. The typology and diachrony of > partitives. In Silvia Luraghi & Tuomas Huumo (eds). *Partitive Cases and > Related Categories*. Berlin/New York, Mouton De Gruyter, 17-62 > > Luraghi, Silvia, Merlijn De Smit and Iv?n Ig?rtua. Forthcoming. Contact > indiced change in the languages of Europe. In Ihsane/Stark, fothcoming*.* > > Moravcsik, Edith 1978. On the case marking of objects. In Joseph Greenberg *et > al*. (eds.) *Universals of Human Language*, vol IV. *Syntax.* Stanford > University Press, 249-290. > > Ser?ant, Ilja. 2015. Independent partitive as a Circum-Baltic isogloss. *Journal > of Language Contact* 8. 341?418. > > Wickman, Bo. 1955. *The form of the object in the Uralic languages*. > Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksell. > > > Silvia Luraghi > Universit? di Pavia > Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Sezione di Linguistica Teorica e > Applicata > Strada Nuova 65 > I-27100 Pavia > tel.: +39/0382/984685 > Web page personale: > http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=68 > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Benjamin.Molineaux at ed.ac.uk Mon Mar 11 05:59:14 2019 From: Benjamin.Molineaux at ed.ac.uk (MOLINEAUX RESS Ben) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:59:14 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Call for papers "Visualisations in Historical Linguistics" (Special Issue, Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities) Message-ID: <9EBA1ACB-4071-488C-A201-575B8662A33A@exseed.ed.ac.uk> Call for papers Visualisations in Historical Linguistics (Special Issue, Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities) Background: The Angus McIntosh Centre hosted a workshop Visualisations in Historical Linguistics as part of the ICEHL conference (27-31 August 2018) where speakers presented new methods or tools which help historical linguists acquire insights through visual representations of data. Visualisations can provide, richer, more intuitive perspectives on the relations between linguistic and extra-linguistic variables (temporal, spatial and social distributions), as well as on relations between different levels of linguistic structure (sounds-spellings, syntax-semantics, etc.). The presenters of the workshop generally gave a moderately technical overview of the visualisations they are working with or have developed, and provided a concise application of these to a particular problem in the history of English or Scots. Publication: Papers of the workshop will be published as a Special Issue of the Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities (https://jdmdh.episciences.org/), edited by Bettelou Los (University of Edinburgh), Benjamin Molineaux (University of Edinburgh) and Martti M?kinen (Hanken School of Economics). Call for papers: To broaden the perspective beyond historical varieties of English, the present call invites other authors working in the field of historical linguistics to submit a paper for this issue. The paper must present original work that has not been published elsewhere; its experiments and data analysis should be replicable, and the paper should indicate how its data can be accessed (e.g. in a data repository with a stable URL). Submission: Submit an extended abstract of the paper (max. 1500 words) to icehl20 at ed.ac.uk before 31st March, 2019. If accepted, the author(s) will receive detailed instructions for the submission of the paper, which should be submitted before June 1st, 2019. Best regards, Bettelou, Martti and Ben (The Editors) The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From silvia.luraghi at unipv.it Tue Mar 19 08:45:31 2019 From: silvia.luraghi at unipv.it (Silvia Luraghi) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 13:45:31 +0100 Subject: [Histling-l] Reminder: CfP -Partitive cases, pronouns and determiners: diachrony and variation University of Pavia, Pavia (Italy) - 2 September 2019 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Deadline approaching! > Workshop >> >> >> >> *Partitive cases, pronouns and determiners: diachrony and variation* >> >> >> >> *University of Pavia, Pavia (Italy) - 2 September 2019* >> >> >> >> >> >> Following the Workshop on Partitive Determiners and Partitive Case >> (Venice, 13-14 November 2017) the second workshop of the PARTE Network will >> take place in Pavia on September 2nd, 2019. >> >> PARTE (PARTititvity in European languages) is a network of nine research >> teams from European universities, which combines theoretical linguist, >> dialectologists, historical linguists, typologists, and applied linguists. >> It is funded by NWO (the Netherlands Organization for scientific research) >> and co-funded by the Universities of Zurich, Venice, Budapest and Pavia. >> >> >> >> >> >> *Aims of the Workshop* >> >> >> >> The workshop aims to bring together researchers on partitive cases, >> including genitives or ablatives used as partitives, partitive determiners, >> partitive pronouns, and other partitive elements, and focusing on their >> diachronic development, on dialectal variation, language contact and >> language acquisition. >> >> >> >> >> >> *Contact person: Silvia Luraghi, University of Pavia, luraghi at unipv.it >> * >> >> >> >> *Workshop website: http://paviapartitives.wikidot.com/ >> * >> >> >> >> >> >> *Invited speakers* >> >> >> >> - Michael Daniel, National Research University Higher School of >> Economics, Moscow >> - Riho Gr?nthal, University of Helsinki >> >> >> >> >> >> *Scientific Committee* >> >> >> >> Anna Cardinaletti, University ?Ca? Foscari?, Venice >> >> Michael Daniel, HSE, Moscow >> >> Giuliana Giusti, University ?Ca? Foscari?, Venice >> >> Riho Gr?nthal, University of Helsinki >> >> Tuomas Huumo, University of Turku >> >> Iv?n Igartua, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz >> >> Tabea Ihsane, University of Geneva >> >> Silvia Luraghi, University of Pavia >> >> Petra Sleeman, University of Amsterdam >> >> Anne Tamm, K?roli G?sp?r University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, >> Budapest >> >> >> >> >> >> *Call for papers* >> >> >> >> Abstracts are invited for oral and/or poster presentation. >> >> Abstracts must be anonymous and no longer than two pages, 12 pt single >> spaced in pdf format. >> >> Please submit your abstract through Easychair: >> https://easychair.org/cfp/Partitives2 >> >> >> >> >> >> *Important dates* >> >> >> >> - Deadline for submission: 31 March 2019 >> - Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2019 >> - Workshop: 2 September 2019 >> >> >> >> >> >> *Background* >> >> >> >> The term ?partitive? has been used in linguistic literature in reference >> to different types of linguistic items (morphemes and/or constructions). In >> the first place, partitive may refer to partitive nominal constructions, >> codifying the part-whole relation, as in *I drank some of the wine from >> that bottle*, or to pseudo-partitive nominal constructions, as in *I >> drank a glass of wine* (Koptjevskaja-Tamm 2001: 527). >> >> In contrast to these two well-described types of construction, other >> items that are also referred to as partitives have, until recently, never >> received a unified treatment, in spite of striking similarities. Such >> partitive elements include partitive cases, as in Finnish or Estonian, >> partitive determiners, as in Basque, French and Italian, and partitive >> pronouns, as in Germanic and Romance languages. >> >> (1) *Elmeri* *l?ys-i mansiko-i-ta.* >> >> Elmer find-3sg.pst strawberry-pl-par [Finnish] >> >> (2) *Elmer ha trovato* *delle* >> *fragole.* >> >> Elmer have.3sg.prs find.pst.ptcp art.par.f.pl >> strawberry(f).pl [Italian] >> >> ?Elmer found some strawberries.? >> >> In (1) and (2) the NPs *mansikoita* and *delle fragole* ?some >> strawberries? refer to an indefinite quantity of not previously identified >> items, contrary to partitive nominal constructions and do not even qualify >> as pseudo-partitive nominal constructions (Luraghi/Huumo 2014). Partitive >> pronouns refer to indefinite quantities, as *ne *in (3). >> >> (3) *Elmer ne ha >> trovate* *molte.* >> >> Elmer par.pron have.3sg.prs find.pst.ptcp.f.pl >> many.f.pl [Italian] >> >> ?Elmer found many (of them).? >> >> A number of recent publications have highlighted cross-linguistic and >> typological similarities of partitive elements, including cases, >> partitively used genitives or ablatives, determiners, and pronouns >> (Luraghi/Huumo 2014, Ihsane/Stark fothc.). Research on the rise of >> partitive elements has shown their relation to other linguistic items and >> constructions. For example, the French partitive article is the outcome of >> the fusion of the genitive/ablative preposition *de* with the definite >> article, and its diachrony can be traced down in historical sources >> (Carlier 2007). In in Finnic languages (Wickman 1955: 27), the partitive >> case ending has been shown to have originated out of older ablative cases >> or postpositions. The partitive use of the genitive case is typical of >> Ancient Indo-European languages as well. Remarkably, some of these >> languages feature a separate ablative case, the development is partly >> different, and the partitive meaning seems to be directly connected with >> the genitive, not necessarily involving the ablative (see Luraghi/Kittil? >> 2014:49-53). Hence, more research on diachrony is needed. Research on >> language contact suggests that the extension of partitive elements may be >> an areal phenomenon (Bjarnad?ttir/De Smit 2013, Ser?ant 2015), and that >> partitive elements may constitute a characteristic but up to now not >> acknowledged feature of Standard Average European (Luraghi/De Smijt/Ig?rtua >> forthc.). In the Oceanic area available indefinite partitives show a >> different extension and possibly different diachronic developments from >> European partitive elements (Budd 2014), which would also be worth >> investigating more in depth. >> >> Moreover, dialectal variation in virtually all areas in which languages >> show partitive elements is under-investigated, and especially non-standard >> varieties deserve more accurate and in-depth treatment. In several areas, >> data are missing where native speakers of the dialects are disappearing. >> Research on contact among languages of different genetic affiliation and >> contact among varieties, including standard and sub-standard, of the same >> language is of paramount importance for the understanding of both >> diachronic change and synchronic variation (e.g. Cerruti/Regis forthc.). >> Partitive determiners may exist in Luxembourgish, possibly as a contact >> phenomenon, but available descriptions are superficial, and confuse >> different constructions. Romance languages possessing partitive determiners >> also have (clitic) partitive pronominals (Ihsane 2013), but from a >> comparative perspective it is unclear whether partitive pronominals that >> also occur in Germanic varieties (cf. Glaser 1992), have the same syntactic >> distribution and meaning(s) as Modern Romance ones*.* In this >> perspective, learners? varieties also deserve attention, as they can help >> shed light on how interference between languages with and without partitive >> elements operates. >> >> >> >> >> >> *Possible topics * >> >> >> >> - The rise of partitive cases, pronouns and determiners: origin of >> the development, grammaticalization, constructional change. >> - Partitives and indefiniteness: Moravcsik (1978: 272) mentions among >> typical semantic correlates of partitives the definitness-indefinitness of >> the noun phrase. How does this function of partitives emerge, and how does >> it correlate with the morphological status of the partitive element (case >> marker vs. determiner, cf. Luraghi/Kittil? 2014: 20-27). >> - What is the relation between partitive elements and other markers >> of NP indefiniteness, e.g. indefinite articles? Is the relation the same in >> different linguistic areas? >> - How specific cases (genitives, ablatives, ...) develop into >> partitive markers and possible constrains on ensuing syncretism: what is >> the relation between the genitive, the partitive and the ablative in >> languages that feature distinct cases? Do other cases e.g. locatives, or >> other determiners e.g. the numeral one/indefinite article (see Budd 2014 on >> Oceanic languages) also develop into partitives? >> - Partitive elements deriving from case markers (cases, adpositions) >> do not show the typical function of case markers to indicate >> grammatical relations (Moravcsik 1978, Luraghi 2003, Luraghi/Kittil? 2014 >> among others). How does this shift come about precisely? >> - Contact induced change and the rise or loss of partitive elements >> as documented in historical varieties (e.g. Ibero-Romance, see >> Carlier/Lemiroy 2014) >> - Dialectal variation, including field studies and documentation of >> vernacular and sub-standard varieties of poorly documented languages. >> - The acquisition of partitives: bilingual speakers and learners. How >> are partitive elements acquired? Do bilingual speakers of languages that >> feature different types of partitive elements show interference in their >> use of partitive elements? >> >> >> >> >> >> *References* >> >> >> >> Bjarnad?ttir, Valger?ur and Merlijn De Smit. 2013. Primary argument >> case-marking in Baltic and Finnic. *Baltu Filologija* 22:1. 31?65. >> >> Budd, Peter. 2014. Partitives in Oceanic languages. Luraghi/Huumo*, *523?561. >> >> >> Carlier, Anne. 2007. From preposition to Article: the grammaticalization >> of the French partitive. *Studies in Language* 31(1). 1?49. >> >> Carlier, Anne and Beatrice Lamiroy. 2014. The gramaticalization of the >> prepositional partitive in Ro- mance. In S. Luraghi e T. Huumo (eds.), *Partitive >> Case and Related Categories*. Berlino: Mou- ton de Gruyter. 477-519. >> >> Cerruti, Massimo and Riccardo Regis. Forthcoming. Partitive determiners >> in Piedmontese: a case of language varia- tion and change in a contact >> setting. In Ihsane/Stark, fothcoming*.* >> >> Glaser, Elvira. 1992. Umbau partitiver Strukturen in der Geschichte des >> Deutschen. *Sprachwissenschaft* 17:2. 113-132. >> >> Ihsane, Tabea. 2013. *En* pronominalization in French and the structure >> of nominal expressions. *Syntax* 16(3). 217?249. >> >> Ihsane, Tabea and Elisabeth Stark (eds.). Forthcoming. *Shades of >> Partitivity: Formal and areal properties*. Special Issue in *Linguistics* >> . >> >> Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. 2001. ?A piece of the cake? and ?a cup of tea?. >> In *Circum-Baltic Languages*. Volume 2: *Grammar and Typology*, ?sten >> Dahl & Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (eds). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, >> 523-568 >> >> Luraghi, Silvia 2003. *On the Meaning of Prepositions and Cases. A Study >> of the Expression of Semantic Roles in Ancient Greek*. Amsterdan: >> Benjamins. >> >> Luraghi, Silvia & Tuomas Huumo (eds.). 2014. *Partitive cases and >> related categories*. Berlin. >> >> Luraghi, Silvia and Seppo Kittil?. 2014. The typology and diachrony of >> partitives. In Silvia Luraghi & Tuomas Huumo (eds). *Partitive Cases and >> Related Categories*. Berlin/New York, Mouton De Gruyter, 17-62 >> >> Luraghi, Silvia, Merlijn De Smit and Iv?n Ig?rtua. Forthcoming. Contact >> indiced change in the languages of Europe. In Ihsane/Stark, fothcoming*.* >> >> Moravcsik, Edith 1978. On the case marking of objects. In Joseph >> Greenberg *et al*. (eds.) *Universals of Human Language*, vol IV. >> *Syntax.* Stanford University Press, 249-290. >> >> Ser?ant, Ilja. 2015. Independent partitive as a Circum-Baltic isogloss. *Journal >> of Language Contact* 8. 341?418. >> >> Wickman, Bo. 1955. *The form of the object in the Uralic languages*. >> Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksell. >> >> >> Silvia Luraghi >> Universit? di Pavia >> Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Sezione di Linguistica Teorica e >> Applicata >> Strada Nuova 65 >> I-27100 Pavia >> tel.: +39/0382/984685 >> Web page personale: >> http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=68 >> > > > >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The course is organized in conjunction with ICHL24 (http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/ichl24/) and the Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference 2019 (http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/lfg-2019/) and is free of charge. For students who need credits to transfer to their home institution, suitable assessment can be arranged. Programme 9-10.45 a) a brief introduction to LFG (Kersti B?rjars) b) an introduction to relevant aspects of linguistic change (Nigel Vincent) 10.45-11 Break 11-12 The development of c-structure (Kersti B?rjars) 12-1 Lunch 1-2 Functional and categorial change in the emergence of verbs (Louisa Sadler) 2 -3 comp and complementizers in change (Nigel Vincent) 3-3.15 Break 3.15-5 Bring your data A opportunity for participants to briefly describe a diachronic data set that particularly interests them and have a discussion of ways of approaching it within LFG. If you are interested in participating, please contact ICHL24 . 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The position includes a teaching commitment of one course per semester. Apart from their CVs, applicants should submit (a) a one-page summary of their dissertation, (b) one published or submitted research article, (c) names of 2-3 persons willing to provide a letter of reference, and (d) a cover letter sketching a possible project they would like to develop together with one or several professors at the department. We strongly aim at gender balance and particularly encourage women to apply. Applications should be sent as a single PDF to jobs @ivs.uzh.chwith subject header ?Morphology/Syntax Postdoc?. Application deadline is April 15, 2019. The starting data is September 1, 2019. For further information contact balthasar.bickel at uzh.ch. ???????- The Department of Comparative Linguistics at the University of Zurich invites applications for a *4-year Postdoctoral Researcher position with a specialization in Indo-European linguistics/philology and historical linguistics*, with a strong interest in comparative/typological/evolutionary questions. The ideal candidate has a solid background in qualitative data acquisition and analysis as well as at least some experience with quantitative methods. The position includes a teaching commitment of one course per semester. Apart from their CVs, applicants should submit (a) a one-page summary of their dissertation, (b) one published or submitted research article, (c) names of 2-3 persons willing to provide a letter of reference, and (d)a cover letter sketching a possible project they would like to develop together with one or several professors at the department. We strongly aim at gender balance and particularly encourage women to apply. Applications should be sent as a single PDF to jobs at ivs.uzh.ch with subject header ?IE Postdoc?. Application deadline is April 15, 2019.The starting data is July1, 2019 or later.For further information contact paul.widmer at uzh.ch. ???????- The Department of Comparative Linguistics at the University of Zurich invites applications for a *4-year Postdoctoral Researcher position in the **Swiss National Science Foundation **Sinergia Project ?Out of Asia: Linguistic Diversity and Population History?, with a specialization in the languages of the Americas (or a subregion therein). *The project is a collaborative effort of linguists together with experts in geography and in the genomics of humans and domesticated plants and animals to unravel the origins of linguistic diversity that developed after the settlement of the Americas out ofAsia. The ideal candidate has a PhD in linguistics, with a solid background in both qualitative and quantitative data analysis. He or she is committed to work in a highly interdisciplinary and dynamic team of twelve researchers and further international collaborators. The position includes a teaching commitment of one course per semester. Apart from their CVs, applicants should (a) a sample of their writing (dissertation chapter, article), (b) names of 2-3 persons willing to provide a letter of reference, and (c) a cover letter explaining their expertise and interest in the project. We strongly aim at gender balance and particularly encourage women to apply. Applications should be sent as a single PDF to jobs at ivs.uzh.ch with subject header ?OoA-Americas Postdoc?. Application deadline is April 15, 2019.The starting date is September 15, 2019.For further information contact balthasar.bickel at uzh.ch or paul.widmer at uzh.ch. ?????????- The Department of Comparative Linguistics at the University of Zurich invites applications for a *4-year Postdoctoral Researcher position in the Swiss National Science Foundation Sinergia Project ?Out of Asia: Linguistic Diversity and Population History?, with a specialization in the languages of Eurasia (or a subregion therein). *The project is a collaborative effort of linguists together with experts in geography and in the genomics of humans and domesticated plants and animals to unravel the origins of linguistic diversity that developed after the settlement of the Americas out ofAsia. The ideal candidate has a PhD in linguistics, with a solid background in both qualitative and quantitative data analysis. He or she is committed to work in a highly interdisciplinary and dynamic team of twelve researchers and further international collaborators. The position includes a teaching commitment of one course per semester. Apart from their CVs, applicants should (a) a sample of their writing (dissertation chapter, article), (b) names of 2-3 persons willing to provide a letter of reference, and (c) a cover letter explaining their expertise and interest in the project.We strongly aim at gender balance and particularly encourage women to apply. Applications should be sent as a single PDF to jobs at ivs.uzh.ch with subject header ?OoA-Eurasia Postdoc?. Application deadline is April 15, 2019. The starting date is September 15, 2019.For further information contact balthasar.bickel at uzh.ch or paul.widmer at uzh.ch. ?????????- The Department of Comparative Linguistics at the University of Zurich invites applications for a *4-year Postdoctoral Researcher position in the Swiss National Science Foundation Sinergia Project ?Out of Asia: Linguistic Diversity and Population History?, with a specialization in linguistic phylogenetics. *The project is a collaborative effort of linguists together with experts in geography and in the genomics of humans and domesticated plants and animals to unravel the origins of linguistic diversity that developed after the settlement of the Americas out ofAsia. The ideal candidate has a PhD in linguistics or related field, with a solid background in comparative phylogenetic methods and linguistic typology. He or she is committed to work in a highly interdisciplinary and dynamic team of twelve researchers and further international collaborators. The position includes a teaching commitment of one course per semester. Apart from their CVs, applicants should (a) a sample of their writing (dissertation chapter, article), (b) names of 2-3 persons willing to provide a letter of reference, and (c) a cover letter explaining their expertise and interest in the project. We strongly aim at gender balance and particularly encourage women to apply. Applications should be sent as a single PDF to jobs at ivs.uzh.ch, with subject header ?OoA-Phylogenetics Postdoc?. Application deadline is April 15, 2019. The starting date is September 15, 2019. For further information contact balthasar.bickel at uzh.ch or paul.widmer at uzh.ch. ?????????- The Department of Comparative Linguistics at the University of Zurich invites applications for a *4-year PhD position in the Swiss National Science Foundation Sinergia Project ?Out of Asia: Linguistic Diversity and Population History?, with an interest in language history and area formation. *The project is a collaborative effort of linguists together with experts in geography and in the genomics of humans and domesticated plants and animals to unravel the origins of linguistic diversity that developed after the settlement of the Americas out ofAsia. The ideal candidate has an MA in linguistics, with a solid background in historical linguistics and typology as well as training, or at least a strong interest in, quantitative analysis. He or she is committed to work in a highly interdisciplinary and dynamic team of twelve researchers and further international collaborators. Apart from their CVs, applicants should (a) a sample of their writing (thesis chapter, article), (b) names of 2-3 persons willing to provide a letter of reference, and (c) a cover letter explaining their expertise and interest in the project. We strongly aim at gender balance and particularly encourage women to apply. Applications should be sent as a single PDF to jobs at ivs.uzh.ch, with subject header ?OoA PhD?. Application deadline is April 15, 2019. The starting date is September 15, 2019. For further information contact balthasar.bickel at uzh.ch or paul.widmer at uzh.ch. ???????- The Department of Comparative Linguistics, in collaboration with the Department of Psychology at the University of Zurich invites applications for a *4-year PhD student position in the Swiss National Science Foundation project ?**Ergativity, Event Cognition and Evolutionary Biases in Language**?*. The sproject investigates the relationship between agent preferences in event cognition and language structure in a diverse set of languages.The PhD student will conduct eye tracking and EEG experiments on Basque and Swiss German, with both children and adults, in collaboration with partners in France and Spain. The ideal candidateholds an MA/MSc in linguistics, psychology, cognitive science or a similar field. Knowledge of Basque is an advantage; otherwise willingness to acquire a working knowledge of the languagequickly is essential.The ideal candidate also possesses prior experience with one or more of the following: experimental studies, eye tracking and/or EEG, programming (R, Python, MATLAB), statistical data analysis. Apart from their CVs, applicants should submit (a) a sample of their writing (e.g., from their MA thesis), (b) names of 2-3 persons willing to provide a letter of reference, and (c) a cover letter explaining their expertise and interest in the project.We strongly aim at gender balance and particularly encourage women to apply. Applications should be sent as a single PDF to jobs at ivs.uzh.ch, with subject header ?E3 PhD?. Application deadline is April 15, 2019. The starting date is October 1, 2019. For further information contact balthasar.bickel at uzh.ch or martin.meyer at uzh.ch ???????- The Department of Comparative Linguistics, in collaboration with the Department of Psychology at the University of Zurich invites applications for a *4-year Postdoctoral Researcher position in the Swiss National Science Foundation project ?**Ergativity, Event Cognition and Evolutionary Biases in Language**?*. The project investigates the relationship between agent preferences in event cognition and language structure in a diverse set of languages.The postdoctoral researcher will conduct eye tracking and EEG experiments on Chintang (Sino-Tibetan) and Swiss German, with both children and adults and together with corpus studies. The experiments on Chintang will be carried out during several field tripsin Eastern Nepal. The ideal candidateholds a PhD in linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, or a similar field. The ideal candidate also possesses prior experience with one or more of the following: Linguistic fieldwork, eye tracking and/or EEG, experimental studies with babies and infants, programming (R, Python, MATLAB ), statistical data analysis.Knowledge of Nepali or willingness to acquire a working knowledge of the language quickly is essential. Apart from their CVs, applicants should submit (a) a sample of their writing (dissertation chapter, article), (b) names of 2-3 persons willing to provide a letter of reference, and (c) a cover letter explaining their expertise and interest in the project.We strongly aim at gender balance and particularly encourage women to apply. Applications should be sent as a single PDF to jobs at ivs.uzh.ch, with the subject header ?E3 Postdoc?. Application deadline is April 15, 2019.The starting date is October 1, 2019. For further information contact balthasar.bickel at uzh.ch or martin.meyer at uzh.ch *????* The Department of Comparative Linguistics, invites applications for a *language**data scientist with a focus on statistics*, in particular Bayesian statistics*. *The successful candidate will work closely with a diverse team of language scientists (Comparative Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, Historical Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Indo-European Studies) on specific projects. S/he will provide support in the design and statistical analysis of experimental and observational studies. The ideal candidate is interested in developing new methods or introducing methods from other fields. Applicants should have solid experience with both experimental and observational data (ideally, linguistic data) as well as excellent skills in statistical modeling and machine learning. The position includes a teaching commitment of one course per semester. The position is initially for one year but can be continued depending on performance and budgetary developments. ** Apart from their CVs, applicants should submit (a) a cover letter explaining their expertise and interest in the job and(b) names of 2-3 persons willing to provide a letter of reference. Applications should be sent as a single PDF to jobs at ivs.uzh.ch, with the subject header ?Language Data Science?. Application deadline is April 15, 2019.The starting date is as early as possible. For further information contact sabine.stoll at uzh.ch. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From clairebowern at gmail.com Sat Apr 6 13:51:04 2019 From: clairebowern at gmail.com (Claire Bowern) Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2019 13:51:04 -0400 Subject: [Histling-l] Fwd: Call for papers: Meaning in Flux 2019 In-Reply-To: <17A37DA8-88FF-460E-B395-BDB2842D6D98@yale.edu> References: <17A37DA8-88FF-460E-B395-BDB2842D6D98@yale.edu> Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Muye Zhang Date: Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 12:41 PM Subject: Call for papers: Meaning in Flux 2019 To: *Meaning in Flux 2019: Connecting development, variation, and change* Yale University, New Haven, CT October 10th -12th, 2019 Workshop website: https://ling.yale.edu/research/labs/language-brain-lab/meaning-flux-2019 *Description*: The connections between meanings and the pronunciations through which they are linguistically conveyed vary systematically within a speech community and change systematically over time. Many synchronic and diachronic patterns that instantiate such dynamics have been well described, yet the cognitive and communicative forces that support them?including their discourse-based, linguistic, conceptual, and cognitive components?remain poorly understood. The focus of this conference is to bring together researchers working on one or more of these facets with the aim of connecting development, variation, and change. We invite abstracts for talks at the intersection of semantics/pragmatics, information/discourse structure, phonetics/phonology (of spoken and signed languages), language variation, language change, and language and cognitive development. We highly encourage submissions presenting in-progress results, covering not only connections between existing analyses and cognitively-grounded explanatory models but also the methodological challenges that arise. Specifically, in this workshop we would like to address the following questions: (a) to what extent are trajectories of meaning-pronunciation dynamics construable as dynamics that emerge from and are guided by real-time implementation of the architecture of language and the larger cognitive system? (b) how are the actuation and propagation of these dynamics driven by discourse context and other communicative constraints? (c) how are the causal relations between the arcs of acquisition/development and change in meaning-pronunciations informed by processing constraints? We are planning this very much as a retreat, with discussion driven by foundational questions on meaning -pronunciation development, variation, and change, as well as the struggle of messy data. We are seeking to bring together all kinds of perspectives on meaning and phonetics/phonology representation, as well as all experimental and empirical approaches, as exemplified by our invited speakers. *Confirmed invited speakers*: Susan Carey, Harvard U. Psychology Herbert Clark, Stanford U. Psychology Jennifer Cole, Northwestern U. Linguistics Veneeta Dayal, Yale U. Linguistics Joy Hirsch, Haskins Labs/Yale U. Psychiatry and Neurobiology *Deadline*: 11:59 PM of your local time zone on *Monday* *June 10th, 2019* *Notification*: Monday July 15th, 2019 *Format*: Two pages, 8.5? x 11? or A4, comprising text, figures, tables, references, etc., as needed. Please maintain 1? margins on all sides, and use at least size 12 font. Abstracts should be headed by the title in bold, and should not contain any author information. Please submit your abstracts using the form at: http://tinyurl.com/meaningflux and address any questions to meaninginflux at gmail.com. *Confirmed scientific committee*: Claire Bowern, Yale U. Linguistics Ant?nio Branco, U. of Lisbon Informatics Ashwini Deo, The Ohio State U. Linguistics Kathryn Franich, U. of Delaware Linguistics and Cognitive Science Roberta Golinkoff, U. of Delaware Education/Psychology/Linguistics Argyro Katsika, UC Santa Barbara Linguistics Mar?a Mercedes Pi?ango, Yale U. Linguistics/Psychology Federico Rossano, UC San Diego Cognitive Science Paula Rubio-Fern?ndez, MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences Petra Schumacher, U. of Cologne German Jason Shaw, Yale U. Linguistics Heike Wiese, Humboldt U. Linguistics Alan Yu, U. of Chicago Linguistics *Executive committee:* Caitlyn Antal, Mart?n Fuchs, Catalina Mourgues, Mar?a Mercedes Pi?ango, Jason Shaw, Jisu Sheen, Nanyan Wu, and Muye Zhang *Organizing committee:* ExCom + Sarah Babinski, Randi Martinez, Joshua Phillips, Emmanuel Souza de Quadros, and Kate Stanton. ------------------------------ The Variationist List - discussion of everything related to variationist sociolinguistics. To send messages to the VAR-L list (subscribers only), write to: VAR-L at JISCMAIL.AC.UK To unsubscribe from the VAR-L list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=VAR-L&A=1 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We have a well-established PhD programme and you can study with us in, or across, a wide range of disciplines, including Contemporary Chinese Studies, English Language, English Literature, French and Francophone Studies, History, Linguistics, Museums and Heritage, Translation Studies, Visual Culture and Cultural Studies. The Westminster Forum for Languages and Linguistics would particularly welcome applications from prospective PhD candidates in our specialist areas in sociolinguistics and historical linguistics: Multilingualism including community/heritage languages Migration, exile, language and spaces Language contact including creole languages Language and gender Historical study of the English language To discuss informally where your research idea might fit within our specialisms, or for queries about any aspect of the application process, please contact Dr Helen Glew h.glew at westminster.ac.uk in the first instance. For details on how to apply, please visit our How to apply page. Please follow these links to apply for the programme most appropriate to your research. Note that the programme appears as MPhil on UCAS, however there is an option on the form to request PhD via MPhil, which is the standard route: MPhil/PhD Linguistics P052485. The Studentship title is Humanities studentship. The closing date for applications is 5pm on 17th May. Interviews will be held during the week beginning 17th June. * Please note that while overseas fee paying students may apply, the fee waiver would be at the home/EU rate and successful applicants will need to pay the difference in the tuition fee if assessed as overseas. With best wishes, Petros ?? 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Many synchronic and diachronic patterns that instantiate such dynamics have been well described, yet the cognitive and communicative forces that support them?including their discourse-based, linguistic, conceptual, and cognitive components?remain poorly understood. The focus of this conference is to bring together researchers working on one or more of these facets with the aim of connecting development, variation, and change. We invite abstracts for talks at the intersection of semantics/pragmatics, information/discourse structure, phonetics/phonology (of spoken and signed languages), language variation, language change, and language and cognitive development. We highly encourage submissions presenting in-progress results, covering not only connections between existing analyses and cognitively-grounded explanatory models but also the methodological challenges that arise. Specifically, in this workshop we would like to address the following questions: (a) to what extent are trajectories of meaning-pronunciation dynamics construable as dynamics that emerge from and are guided by real-time implementation of the architecture of language and the larger cognitive system? (b) how are the actuation and propagation of these dynamics driven by discourse context and other communicative constraints? (c) how are the causal relations between the arcs of acquisition/development and change in meaning-pronunciations informed by processing constraints? We are planning this very much as a retreat, with discussion driven by foundational questions on meaning-pronunciation development, variation, and change, as well as the struggle of messy data. We are seeking to bring together all kinds of perspectives on meaning and phonetics/phonology representation, as well as all experimental and empirical approaches, as exemplified by our invited speakers. Confirmed invited speakers: Susan Carey, Harvard U. Psychology Herbert Clark, Stanford U. Psychology Jennifer Cole, Northwestern U. Linguistics Veneeta Dayal, Yale U. Linguistics Joy Hirsch, Haskins Labs/Yale U. Psychiatry and Neurobiology <>Deadline <>: 11:59 PM of your local time zone on Monday June 10th, 2019 Notification: Monday July 15th, 2019 Format: Two pages, 8.5? x 11? or A4, comprising text, figures, tables, references, etc., as needed. Please maintain 1? margins on all sides, and use at least size 12 font. Abstracts should be headed by the title in bold, and should not contain any author information. Please submit your abstracts using the form at: http://tinyurl.com/meaningflux and address any questions to meaninginflux at gmail.com . Confirmed scientific committee: Claire Bowern, Yale U. Linguistics Ant?nio Branco, U. of Lisbon Informatics Ashwini Deo, The Ohio State U. Linguistics Kathryn Franich, U. of Delaware Linguistics and Cognitive Science Roberta Golinkoff, U. of Delaware Education/Psychology/Linguistics Argyro Katsika, UC Santa Barbara Linguistics Mar?a Mercedes Pi?ango, Yale U. Linguistics/Psychology Federico Rossano, UC San Diego Cognitive Science Paula Rubio-Fern?ndez, MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences Petra Schumacher, U. of Cologne German Jason Shaw, Yale U. Linguistics Heike Wiese, Humboldt U. Linguistics Alan Yu, U. of Chicago Linguistics Executive committee: Caitlyn Antal, Mart?n Fuchs, Catalina Mourgues, Mar?a Mercedes Pi?ango, Jason Shaw, Jisu Sheen, Nanyan Wu, and Muye Zhang Organizing committee: ExCom + Sarah Babinski, Randi Martinez, Joshua Phillips, Emmanuel Souza de Quadros, and Kate Stanton. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From giorgio.arcodia at unimib.it Tue Apr 16 05:45:42 2019 From: giorgio.arcodia at unimib.it (Giorgio Francesco Arcodia) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:45:42 +0200 Subject: [Histling-l] CfP: Word Formation in Diachrony (IMM19 workshop) Message-ID: The workshop ?Word Formation in Diachrony? *is part of the 19th International Morphology Meeting*, which will be held in Vienna, Austria, at the Wirtschaftsuniversit?t Wien, *6-8 February 2020* (conference website: https://www.wu.ac.at/en/imm19). Deadline for submission: *30 September 2019* *Workshop description*: Word Formation (henceforth: WF) represents by now a well-established domain in morphological studies. Many inquiries have investigated the mechanisms exploited by languages to create new words (see ?tekauer & Lieber 2006; M?ller et al. 2015), especially compounding and derivation, according to different approaches, as e.g. cognitive approaches, onomasiological approaches (see Lieber & ?tekauer 2009), constructionist approaches (Construction Morphology; see Booij 2015), etc. Most of the above have focused on the semantic and formal properties of derived words and/or compounds from a synchronic perspective (see e.g. Bauer 2017; Sch?fer 2018 on compounding). Conversely, less attention has been given to the diachrony of WF, although a diachronic perspective is crucial for highlighting many aspects of WF, e.g. productivity of affixes or compound constituents, changes affecting the formal and/or semantic dimension of morphologically complex words, competition between two or more WF strategies, etc. These topics have so far been addressed by a relatively limited number of studies, which however have shown that diachrony is a promising perspective to improve our understanding of how WF mechanisms emerge, develop, compete with each other, and also of how they disappear from use (see e.g. Hilpert 2013: 110-154 and H?ning 2019 on diachronic changes in WF). Against this background, we invite authors to submit original, unpublished research papers on (but not limited to) the following topics of interest: - The productivity of WF mechanisms from a diachronic perspective; - Changes in WF (e.g. semantic or formal changes, cases of grammaticalization, etc.); - Competition between WF mechanisms from a diachronic perspective. Contributions on any language(s), language familie(s) and area(s), in any theoretical perspective, are equally welcome. *Please send an abstract of no more than 500 words (excl. references)* to maria.micheli at unimib.it and giorgio.arcodia at unimib.it. With best wishes, Maria Silvia Micheli & Giorgio Francesco Arcodia *References* Bauer, L. (2017). *Compounds and compounding* (Vol. 155). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Booij, G. (2015). Word formation in Construction Grammar. In M?ller, P. O., Ohnheiser, I., Olsen, S., & Rainer, F. (Eds.). *Word Formation. An International Handbook of the Languages of Europe*. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, Volume 1, 188-202. Hilpert, M. (2013). *Constructional change in English: Developments in allomorphy, word formation, and syntax*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. H?ning, M. (2019). Morphological Theory and Diachronic Change. In Audring, J., & Masini, F. (Eds.). *The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory*. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Lieber, R., & ?tekauer, P. (Eds.). (2009). *The Oxford handbook of compounding*. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Lieber, R., & ?tekauer, P. (Eds.). (2014). *The Oxford handbook of derivational morphology*. Oxford: Oxford University Press. M?ller, P. O., Ohnheiser, I., Olsen, S., & Rainer, F. (Eds.). (2015). *Word-formation: an international handbook of the languages of Europe* (Vol. 40). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. Sch?fer, M. (2018). *The semantic transparency of English compound nouns*. Berlin: Language Science Press. ?tekauer, P., & Lieber, R. (Eds.). (2006). *Handbook of word-formation*. Cham: Springer. -- Prof. Dr. Giorgio Francesco Arcodia ????? ??? Vice-president, *European Association of Chinese Linguistics* ????????? ??? http://www.chineselinguistics.eu/ Treasurer, *Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Cinese* ?????????? ???? https://linguisticacinese.wixsite.com/ailc Universit? degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca ??????? Dipartimento di Scienze Umane per la Formazione ???? Edificio U6 - stanza 4101 ??? 4101? Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo, 1 20126 Milano ??? ?? Tel.: (+39) 02 6448 4946(+39) 02 6448 4946 Fax: (+39) 02 6448 4863 E-mail: giorgio.arcodia at unimib.it Website: http://www.bilgroup.it/it/info/giorgio-francesco-arcodia/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bicoccalanguage *I dati personali saranno trattati ai sensi del Decreto Legislativo n. 196 del 2003 (Codice in materia di protezione dei dati personali) e sue successive modifiche e integrazioni, nonch? del Regolamento UE 2016/679 (GDPR). 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We welcome papers in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application/development of sociolinguistic theories, models,? and methods for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines,? and methodologies easily find their place within the field, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. Papers with an explicit focus on this year?s NWAV special topic areas are particularly welcome: - Variation and change in underdocumented speech communities. - Acquisition of sociolinguistic variation. - Sociolinguistics and the listener. - Computational sociolinguistics. Authors will be notified with a decision about acceptance for inclusion in the NARNiHS @ NWAV special session proposal(s) by Friday, 24 May 2019. Authors whose abstracts are not accepted are encouraged to submit their abstracts for inclusion in the NWAV general? sessions by NWAV?s 01 June 2019 deadline (see https://nwav48.uoregon.edu/ for details).? Note that acceptance into the NARNiHS-sponsored special session proposal(s) does not guarantee acceptance into NWAV 48, as all special session proposal(s) will be further? reviewed by NWAV reviewers for final acceptance into the conference. General Requirements: 1. Abstracts for 20-minute papers must be submitted to NARNiHS electronically, using the following link: http://linguistlist.org/confservices/NARNiHSatNWAV48 . 2. Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts, one single-authored abstract and one co-authored abstract. 3. Authors are expected to attend the conference and present their own papers. 4. After an abstract has been submitted, no changes of author, title, or wording of the abstract, other than those due to typographical errors, are permitted. If accepted, authors will be contacted for a final version for the conference program. 5. Papers must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. 6. Authors may not submit identical abstracts for presentation in the NARNiHS-sponsored panel(s) and in the NWAV general sessions. NWAV Abstract Guidelines: Abstracts should be no more than 500 words, confined to 1 page of text. (Bibliography, glossed/transcribed examples, and images may appear on a second page and do not count toward the word limit.) All abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. Abstracts should? be anonymized to omit all information about the author(s). For your submission to NARNiHS, please note that your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. If you identify yourself in any way on the abstract itself (including indirect identification, e.g. "In Bly (1992)...I"),? the abstract will be rejected without being evaluated. In addition, be sure to anonymize your PDF document by clicking on "File?, then "Properties?, removing your name if it appears in the "Author" line of the ?Description? tab, and re-saving before submitting? it. Please be aware that abstract file names are not automatically anonymized; do not use your name (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf) when saving your abstract in PDF format, but rather, use non-identifying information (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe_NARNiHS.pdf). From claire.bowern at yale.edu Mon Apr 22 18:05:56 2019 From: claire.bowern at yale.edu (Claire Bowern) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 18:05:56 -0400 Subject: [Histling-l] earliest attestation of a 'cognate set'? Message-ID: Dear list members, I'm writing an article about historical databases and I'm trying to trace the earliest example of a correspondence set (or some other equivalent organization of data). Rask has comparisons, of course, and earlier the typological/lexical comparisons of Gesner and contemporaries. Dante makes comparisons between Latin and contemporary vernaculars but I'm not sure we could call those correspondence sets. Are there similar correspondences in the Arabic or Turkic grammatical traditions? Or other early authors who talk about systematic correspondences or organize data in a way that we might associate with cognate or comparison sets? Thanks in advance for your help, Claire -- Claire Bowern Professor, Director of Graduate Studies Chair: Yale Women Faculty Forum (wff.yale.edu) Department of Linguistics New Haven, CT 06511 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Harold.Koch at anu.edu.au Tue Apr 23 02:34:06 2019 From: Harold.Koch at anu.edu.au (Harold Koch) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 06:34:06 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] earliest attestation of a 'cognate set'? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Claire et al Probably not the earliest but worth noting anyway. 1 Reminder of William Dawes? 1791 short comparative word list of inland vs coastal dialects of the Sydney language:, showing -nd- : -n- correspondence. [you] ngyindi ngyini Knee bundung bunung Navel munduru munuru Foot mandaowi manaowi See https://www.williamdawes.org/ms/msview.php?image-id=book-b-page-43 And discussion in Wilkins, David. & David Nash (2008). The European 'discovery' of a multilingual Australia: The linguistic and ethnographic successes of a failed expedition. In William B. McGregor (Ed.), Encountering Aboriginal languages: Studies in the history of Australian linguistics (pp. 485-507). Canberra: Australian National University. 2 A later but better example from this part of the world is: Hale, Horatio (1968)[1846]. Ethnography and philology: Vol. 6 of United States exploring expedition during the years 1838-1842 under the command of Charles Wilkes. Ridgewood, N.J.: Gregg Press. [first edition Lea and Blanchard 1846]. Section ?Polynesian grammar: a comparative grammar of the Polynesian dialects.? Hale compares 10 languages. Here are some quotes: p. 232: ?The following table will show the number of consonantal elements in each dialect, and the permutations which they undergo in passing from one to another.? [table of 10 consonants correspondences in 10 lects] ?Besides the regular permutations above-noted, there are others which occasionally take place between different dialects.? p. 233: ?The vowels undergo but few changes, and those chiefly in consequence of the permutations of the consonants.? p. 234 ?The following examples will show the changes which words undergo in passing from dialect to another.? [table p. 235 of 17 cognate sets?no glosses given] From: histling-l [mailto:histling-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Claire Bowern Sent: Tuesday, 23 April 2019 8:06 AM To: Histling-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Histling-l] earliest attestation of a 'cognate set'? Dear list members, I'm writing an article about historical databases and I'm trying to trace the earliest example of a correspondence set (or some other equivalent organization of data). Rask has comparisons, of course, and earlier the typological/lexical comparisons of Gesner and contemporaries. Dante makes comparisons between Latin and contemporary vernaculars but I'm not sure we could call those correspondence sets. Are there similar correspondences in the Arabic or Turkic grammatical traditions? Or other early authors who talk about systematic correspondences or organize data in a way that we might associate with cognate or comparison sets? Thanks in advance for your help, Claire -- Claire Bowern Professor, Director of Graduate Studies Chair: Yale Women Faculty Forum (wff.yale.edu) Department of Linguistics New Haven, CT 06511 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pekka.sammallahti at oulu.fi Tue Apr 23 03:00:34 2019 From: pekka.sammallahti at oulu.fi (Pekka Sammallahti) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 07:00:34 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] earliest attestation of a 'cognate set'? In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: Hi all, Professor Johannes Schefferus of Uppsala University in Sweden published a comprehensive description of the Saami people in 1674 called Lapponia. He states that Saami and Finnish are related languages and adds a list of Saami-Finnish word pairs which in his view confirms the relation. He refers to an earlier vocabulary by Zacharias Plantinus as the original source of the idea. Pekka Sammallahti professor emeritus of Saami language and culture University of Oulu, Finland ________________________________ From: histling-l on behalf of Harold Koch Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 9:34:06 AM To: Claire Bowern; Histling-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Histling-l] earliest attestation of a 'cognate set'? Hi Claire et al Probably not the earliest but worth noting anyway. 1 Reminder of William Dawes? 1791 short comparative word list of inland vs coastal dialects of the Sydney language:, showing -nd- : -n- correspondence. [you] ngyindi ngyini Knee bundung bunung Navel munduru munuru Foot mandaowi manaowi See https://www.williamdawes.org/ms/msview.php?image-id=book-b-page-43 And discussion in Wilkins, David. & David Nash (2008). The European 'discovery' of a multilingual Australia: The linguistic and ethnographic successes of a failed expedition. In William B. McGregor (Ed.), Encountering Aboriginal languages: Studies in the history of Australian linguistics (pp. 485-507). Canberra: Australian National University. 2 A later but better example from this part of the world is: Hale, Horatio (1968)[1846]. Ethnography and philology: Vol. 6 of United States exploring expedition during the years 1838-1842 under the command of Charles Wilkes. Ridgewood, N.J.: Gregg Press. [first edition Lea and Blanchard 1846]. Section ?Polynesian grammar: a comparative grammar of the Polynesian dialects.? Hale compares 10 languages. Here are some quotes: p. 232: ?The following table will show the number of consonantal elements in each dialect, and the permutations which they undergo in passing from one to another.? [table of 10 consonants correspondences in 10 lects] ?Besides the regular permutations above-noted, there are others which occasionally take place between different dialects.? p. 233: ?The vowels undergo but few changes, and those chiefly in consequence of the permutations of the consonants.? p. 234 ?The following examples will show the changes which words undergo in passing from dialect to another.? [table p. 235 of 17 cognate sets?no glosses given] From: histling-l [mailto:histling-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Claire Bowern Sent: Tuesday, 23 April 2019 8:06 AM To: Histling-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Histling-l] earliest attestation of a 'cognate set'? Dear list members, I'm writing an article about historical databases and I'm trying to trace the earliest example of a correspondence set (or some other equivalent organization of data). Rask has comparisons, of course, and earlier the typological/lexical comparisons of Gesner and contemporaries. Dante makes comparisons between Latin and contemporary vernaculars but I'm not sure we could call those correspondence sets. Are there similar correspondences in the Arabic or Turkic grammatical traditions? Or other early authors who talk about systematic correspondences or organize data in a way that we might associate with cognate or comparison sets? Thanks in advance for your help, Claire -- Claire Bowern Professor, Director of Graduate Studies Chair: Yale Women Faculty Forum (wff.yale.edu) Department of Linguistics New Haven, CT 06511 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nigel.vincent at manchester.ac.uk Tue Apr 23 05:05:23 2019 From: nigel.vincent at manchester.ac.uk (Nigel Vincent) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 09:05:23 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] earliest attestation of a 'cognate set'? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1932B7F071337A4088C8050DE465747D019A2590CD@MBXP11.ds.man.ac.uk> Dear Claire, Just to say I agree that you could hardly call the comparisons Dante makes, both between Latin and the vernaculars and between different vernaculars, correspondence sets in anything like the usual sense of that term. Best Nigel Professor Nigel Vincent, FBA MAE Professor Emeritus of General & Romance Linguistics The University of Manchester Linguistics & English Language School of Arts, Languages and Cultures The University of Manchester https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/researchers/nigel-vincent(f973a991-8ece-453e-abc5-3ca198c869dc).html ________________________________ From: histling-l [histling-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] on behalf of Claire Bowern [claire.bowern at yale.edu] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2019 11:05 PM To: Histling-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Histling-l] earliest attestation of a 'cognate set'? Dear list members, I'm writing an article about historical databases and I'm trying to trace the earliest example of a correspondence set (or some other equivalent organization of data). Rask has comparisons, of course, and earlier the typological/lexical comparisons of Gesner and contemporaries. Dante makes comparisons between Latin and contemporary vernaculars but I'm not sure we could call those correspondence sets. Are there similar correspondences in the Arabic or Turkic grammatical traditions? Or other early authors who talk about systematic correspondences or organize data in a way that we might associate with cognate or comparison sets? Thanks in advance for your help, Claire -- Claire Bowern Professor, Director of Graduate Studies Chair: Yale Women Faculty Forum (wff.yale.edu) Department of Linguistics New Haven, CT 06511 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Vit From: histling-l [mailto:histling-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Claire Bowern Sent: Monday, April 22, 2019 7:36 PM To: Histling-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Histling-l] earliest attestation of a 'cognate set'? Dear list members, I'm writing an article about historical databases and I'm trying to trace the earliest example of a correspondence set (or some other equivalent organization of data). Rask has comparisons, of course, and earlier the typological/lexical comparisons of Gesner and contemporaries. Dante makes comparisons between Latin and contemporary vernaculars but I'm not sure we could call those correspondence sets. Are there similar correspondences in the Arabic or Turkic grammatical traditions? Or other early authors who talk about systematic correspondences or organize data in a way that we might associate with cognate or comparison sets? 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(Ruprecht-Karls-Universit?t Heidelberg, Germany) ii) MEMBER OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (to serve until 2025) Mark Harvey (University of Newcastle, Newcastle NSW, Australia) iii) MEMBERS OF NOMINATING COMMITTEE a) MEMBER OF NOMINATING COMMITTEE (to serve until 2027) Eugen Hill (Universit?t K?ln, Germany) b) MEMBER OF NOMINATING COMMITTEE (to serve until 2021) ?ric Mathieu (University of Ottawa, Ottawa ON, Canada), who was due to become the senior member of the Nominating Committee and take up the chair, has announced his resignation from the Committee. A replacement is therefore needed, to serve for the remainder of his term (until 2021) and to act as Chair. The Nominating Committee proposes Elly van Gelderen (Arizona State University, Tempe AZ, USA) for this position. iv) SECRETARY The Nominating Committee proposes that John Charles Smith (University of Oxford, UK) should continue to serve as Secretary of the Society. With these nominations, the composition of the Society's Committees will be as follows: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE President and Director of the 2021 Conference: Aditi Lahiri (Oxford) Future President and Conference Director (2023): Jadranka Gvozdanovi? (Heidelberg) Former Conference Director: Bethwyn Evans (ANU, Canberra) Secretary: John Charles Smith (Oxford) Other Members: J?hanna Bar?dal (Gent), until 2021 Lyle Campbell (UH M?noa), until 2023 Mark Harvey (Newcastle NSW), until 2025 NOMINATING COMMITTEE Chair: Elly van Gelderen (ASU, Tempe), until 2021 Other Members: Brigitte L. M. Bauer (Max Planck Instituut / UT Austin), until 2023 Robert Mailhammer (Western Sydney), until 2025 Eugen Hill (K?ln), until 2027. According to the Society's Constitution, individual members may also make nominations. Should anyone wish to do so, could they please let both the Secretary (johncharles.smith at stcatz.ox.ac.uk) and the current Chair of the Nominating Committee (abergs at uos.de) know by email as soon as possible, and in any event before 15 June. Nominations will require the signatures of six proposers and the written consent of the nominee. The nominee and all of the proposers should be members of the Society. I look forward to seeing you in Canberra. All good wishes, John Charles Smith Secretary, ISHL ? John Charles Smith St Catherine's College, Oxford, OX1 3UJ, UK Research Centre for Romance Linguistics, University of Oxford College phone: +44 1865 271700; College Fax: +44 1865 271768 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From claire.bowern at yale.edu Tue May 7 21:02:01 2019 From: claire.bowern at yale.edu (Claire Bowern) Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 21:02:01 -0400 Subject: [Histling-l] Fwd: ICHL24 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [image: image] ANU College of Asia & the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language [image: image] 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL24) We are pleased to invite you to the 24th biennial conference of the International Society for Historical Linguistics. Continuing and expanding a proud tradition, the upcoming ICHL24 will present both renowned and exciting new voices in the many domains of the field, including methods and practices of reconstruction, formal approaches to change, historical sociolinguistics and contact linguistics. *REGISTER HERE * *WHEN:* 1?5 July 2019 *WHERE:* University House, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia While featuring languages from across the world, in the International Year of Indigenous Languages, ICHL24 will highlight the very diverse languages and language families of our region, especially those of Australia, mainland Southeast Asia and New Guinea. With a truly multi-disciplinary focus, the conference will also showcase new advances in computational and phylogenetic approaches to historical linguistics, and new ways of placing the field within trans-disciplinary understandings of the human past. *The program* Over five days, the packed program will include seven concurrent sessions daily, ten intensive workshops, seven plenary presentations, and social activities with a distinctive local flavour. The keynote addresses underline the trans-disciplinary nature of the gathering. Prominent language variation expert Anita Auer will speak on the emergence of Standard English; Johann-Mattis List from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History will take participants through problem-solving strategies in computational historical linguistics; while Chris Ballard, an ANU Pacific historian, will present a series of Melanesian case studies to ask what history can say about the evolution of contemporary language diversity. *Workshops* The breadth of workshops during ICHL24 will showcase presenters and facilitators driving forward contemporary historical linguistics, representing a great variety of fields, experiences and career paths. Over three days, Max Planck Institute scientists Simon Greenhill, Russell Gray, Johann-Mattis List, Robert Forkel and others will explicate the latest in computational and phylogenetic methods. Luisa Miceli, Mark Ellison and colleagues will compare linguistic and biological phylogenies in the context of Oceania ? can they be reconciled? A new generation of younger researchers will take participants on a two-day tour of the history of Papuan languages and their speakers. *Registration* The conference website contains essential (and quite a bit of extra) information about travelling to Australia, accommodation options in its picturesque capital city, and of course ? the social calendar. This includes three optional cultural excursions on the afternoon of third day, led by expert local guides. Hurry early bird registration closes on 31 May! *This conference is proudly presented in partnership with:* [image: image] *Contact Us* *T* +61 2 6125 9376 *E* coedlevents at anu.edu.au *W* www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Contact NARNiHistSoc at gmail.com with questions. We are soliciting abstracts for NARNiHS-sponsored special session(s) in historical sociolinguistics at NWAV 48. We welcome papers in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application/development of sociolinguistic theories, models, and methods for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, and methodologies easily find their place within the field, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. Papers with an explicit focus on this year?s NWAV special topic areas are particularly welcome: - Variation and change in underdocumented speech communities. - Acquisition of sociolinguistic variation. - Sociolinguistics and the listener. - Computational sociolinguistics. Authors will be notified with a decision about acceptance for inclusion in the NARNiHS @ NWAV special session proposal(s) by Friday, 24 May 2019. Authors whose abstracts are not accepted are encouraged to submit their abstracts for inclusion in the NWAV general sessions by NWAV?s 01 June 2019 deadline (see https://nwav48.uoregon.edu/ for details).? Note that acceptance into the NARNiHS sponsored special session proposal(s) does not guarantee acceptance into NWAV 48, as all special session proposal(s) will be further reviewed by NWAV reviewers for final acceptance into the conference. General Requirements: 1. Abstracts for 20-minute papers must be submitted to NARNiHS electronically, using the following link: http://linguistlist.org/confservices/NARNiHSatNWAV48 . 2. Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts, one single-authored abstract and one co-authored abstract. 3. Authors are expected to attend the conference and present their own papers. 4. After an abstract has been submitted, no changes of author, title, or wording of the abstract, other than those due to typographical errors, are permitted. If accepted, authors will be contacted for a final version for the conference program. 5. Papers must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. 6. Authors may not submit identical abstracts for presentation in the NARNiHS-sponsored panel(s) and in the NWAV general sessions. NWAV Abstract Guidelines: Abstracts should be no more than 500 words, confined to 1 page of text. (Bibliography, glossed/transcribed examples, and images may appear on a second page and do not count toward the word limit.) All abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. Abstracts should be anonymized to omit all information about the author(s). For your submission to NARNiHS, please note that your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. If you identify yourself in any way on the abstract itself (including indirect identification, e.g. "In Bly (1992)...I"), the abstract will be rejected without being evaluated. In addition, be sure to anonymize your PDF document by clicking on "File?, then "Properties?, removing your name if it appears in the "Author" line of the ?Description? tab, and re-saving before submitting it. Please be aware that abstract file names are not automatically anonymized; do not use your name (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf) when saving your abstract in PDF format, but rather, use non-identifying information (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe_NARNiHS.pdf). From muye.zhang at yale.edu Mon May 13 03:31:53 2019 From: muye.zhang at yale.edu (Muye Zhang) Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 17:31:53 +1000 Subject: [Histling-l] 2nd Call for papers: Meaning in Flux 2019 Message-ID: <61A7E68B-A4C6-47B8-8916-48FFFE4A2A63@yale.edu> Meaning in Flux 2019: Connecting development, variation, and change Yale University, New Haven, CT October 10th -12th, 2019 Description: The connections between meanings and the pronunciations through which they are linguistically conveyed vary systematically within a speech community and change systematically over time. Many synchronic and diachronic patterns that instantiate such dynamics have been well described, yet the cognitive and communicative forces that support them?including their discourse-based, linguistic, conceptual, and cognitive components?remain poorly understood. The focus of this conference is to bring together researchers working on one or more of these facets with the aim of connecting development, variation, and change. We invite abstracts for talks at the intersection of semantics/pragmatics, information/discourse structure, phonetics/phonology (of spoken and signed languages), language variation, language change, and language and cognitive development. We highly encourage submissions presenting in-progress results, covering not only connections between existing analyses and cognitively-grounded explanatory models but also the methodological challenges that arise. Specifically, in this workshop we would like to address the following questions: (a) to what extent are trajectories of meaning-pronunciation dynamics construable as dynamics that emerge from and are guided by real-time implementation of the architecture of language and the larger cognitive system? (b) how are the actuation and propagation of these dynamics driven by discourse context and other communicative constraints? (c) how are the causal relations between the arcs of acquisition/development and change in meaning-pronunciations informed by processing constraints? We are planning this very much as a retreat, with discussion driven by foundational questions on meaning-pronunciation development, variation, and change, as well as the struggle of messy data. We are seeking to bring together all kinds of perspectives on meaning and phonetics/phonology representation, as well as all experimental and empirical approaches, as exemplified by our invited speakers. Confirmed invited speakers: Susan Carey, Harvard U. Psychology Herbert Clark, Stanford U. Psychology Jennifer Cole, Northwestern U. Linguistics Veneeta Dayal, Yale U. Linguistics Joy Hirsch, Haskins Labs/Yale U. Psychiatry and Neurobiology Deadline: 11:59 PM of your local time zone on Monday June 10th, 2019 Notification: Monday July 15th, 2019 Format: Two pages, 8.5? x 11? or A4, comprising text, figures, tables, references, etc., as needed. Please maintain 1? margins on all sides, and use at least size 12 font. Abstracts should be headed by the title in bold, and should not contain any author information.Please submit your abstracts using the form at: http://tinyurl.com/meaningflux and address any questions to meaninginflux at gmail.com. Confirmed scientific committee: Claire Bowern, Yale U. Linguistics Ant?nio Branco, U. of Lisbon Informatics Kathryn Davidson, Harvard U. Linguistics Ashwini Deo, The Ohio State U. Linguistics Kathryn Franich, U. of Delaware Linguistics and Cognitive Science Roberta Golinkoff, U. of Delaware Education/Psychology/Linguistics Argyro Katsika, UC Santa Barbara Linguistics Mar?a Mercedes Pi?ango, Yale U. Linguistics/Psychology Jennie Pyers, Wellesley C. 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On 17 May 2019, at 14:25, Bernard, C.B.A.S. > wrote: Dear colleagues, Does anyone of you know of, in any language, of a semantic change "or" > "nevertheless"? Kind regards, Chams Bernard, Leiden. _______________________________________________ histling-l mailing list histling-l at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From c.b.a.s.bernard at hum.leidenuniv.nl Mon May 20 03:10:27 2019 From: c.b.a.s.bernard at hum.leidenuniv.nl (Bernard, C.B.A.S.) Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 07:10:27 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] 2nd Call for papers: Meaning in Flux 2019 In-Reply-To: <77150124-5715-47BA-BC4A-2BF41A86FADA@kuleuven.be> References: <61A7E68B-A4C6-47B8-8916-48FFFE4A2A63@yale.edu>, <87D91D012453B84B91D0C3A321D7E2BAB46E58@SPMXM08.VUW.leidenuniv.nl>, <77150124-5715-47BA-BC4A-2BF41A86FADA@kuleuven.be> Message-ID: <87D91D012453B84B91D0C3A321D7E2BAB472EA@SPMXM08.VUW.leidenuniv.nl> Thank you so much Freek! ________________________________ De : Freek Van de Velde [freek.vandevelde at kuleuven.be] Envoy? : vendredi 17 mai 2019 15:10 ? : Bernard, C.B.A.S. Cc : histling-l at mailman.yale.edu Objet : Re: [Histling-l] 2nd Call for papers: Meaning in Flux 2019 I think Latin aut and autem originated as signaling disjunction, but came to incorporate counter-expectional or adversary meaning. Not sure about the direction of change though. One would have to check the etymological dictionaries, though. Maybe also: English ?a kind, if stupid boy?, where there?s is subjective meaning overlaying the mere disjunction. I would check literature on subjectification/subjectivity Best regards, Freek Van de Velde. On 17 May 2019, at 14:25, Bernard, C.B.A.S. > wrote: Dear colleagues, Does anyone of you know of, in any language, of a semantic change "or" > "nevertheless"? Kind regards, Chams Bernard, Leiden. _______________________________________________ histling-l mailing list histling-l at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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All best wishes, Ben Molineaux (for the ESHP4 Organising Committee) ---- Benjamin Molineaux, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow The Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics The University of Edinburgh Web: http://www.homepages.ed.ac.uk/bmolinea/ +44 (0)131 6 506977 Out now: Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age, EUP (with R. Alcorn, B. Los and J. Kopaczyk) The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Further information is available on the website: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/symposium-on-historical-phonology/eshp4/. Please note that the deadline for submitting abstracts is 15th July. We look forward to seeing many of you in December! All best wishes, Ben Molineaux (for the ESHP4 Organising Committee) ---- Benjamin Molineaux, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow The Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics The University of Edinburgh Web: http://www.homepages.ed.ac.uk/bmolinea/ +44 (0)131 6 506977 Out now: Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age, EUP (with R. Alcorn, B. Los and J. Kopaczyk) The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. _______________________________________________ histling-l mailing list histling-l at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From P.Karatsareas at westminster.ac.uk Mon Jun 3 10:53:58 2019 From: P.Karatsareas at westminster.ac.uk (Petros Karatsareas) Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2019 14:53:58 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] English, French and the French of England: Late Medieval Encounters Message-ID: Dear all, We are delighted to announce the programme of the ?English, French and the French of England: Late Medieval Encounters? workshop, which will take place at the University of Westminster (Pavilion Room, 115 New Cavendish Street, London W1W 6UW) on 9 September 2019. The workshop is organised by Prof Richard Ingham with the financial support of Language Acts and Worldmaking, a flagship project funded by the AHRC Open World Research Initiative. For further information, please contact Professor Ingham at R.Ingham at westminster.ac.uk. With best wishes, Petros ?? Dr Petros Karatsareas Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics Course Leader for MA English Language Co-Director of Cyprus Centre @ Westminster University of Westminster School of Humanities 309 Regent Street London W1B 2HW http://westminster.academia.edu/PetrosKaratsareas | orcid.org/0000-0001-5339-4136 | @pkaratsareas Greek Cypriot London: Camden to Enfield on the 29 bus project with Athena Mandis Being Human Festival website BBC3 Free Thinking programme Islington Gazette piece CYBC (???) coverage New publications: ?The fragile future of the Cypriot Greek language in the UK?, British Academy Review ?Attitudes towards Cypriot Greek and Standard Modern Greek in London?s Greek Cypriot community?, International Journal of Bilingualism The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. 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Many synchronic and diachronic patterns that instantiate such dynamics have been well described, yet the cognitive and communicative forces that support them?including their discourse-based, linguistic, conceptual, and cognitive components?remain poorly understood. The focus of this conference is to bring together researchers working on one or more of these facets with the aim of connecting development, variation, and change. We invite abstracts for talks at the intersection of semantics/pragmatics, information/discourse structure, phonetics/phonology (of spoken and signed languages), language variation, language change, and language and cognitive development. We highly encourage submissions presenting in-progress results, covering not only connections between existing analyses and cognitively-grounded explanatory models but also the methodological challenges that arise. Specifically, in this workshop we would like to address the following questions: (a) to what extent are trajectories of meaning-pronunciation dynamics construable as dynamics that emerge from and are guided by real-time implementation of the architecture of language and the larger cognitive system? (b) how are the actuation and propagation of these dynamics driven by discourse context and other communicative constraints? (c) how are the causal relations between the arcs of acquisition/development and change in meaning-pronunciations informed by processing constraints? We are planning this very much as a retreat, with discussion driven by foundational questions on meaning-pronunciation development, variation, and change, as well as the struggle of messy data. We are seeking to bring together all kinds of perspectives on meaning and phonetics/phonology representation, as well as all experimental and empirical approaches, as exemplified by our invited speakers. Confirmed invited speakers: Susan Carey, Harvard U. Psychology Herbert Clark, Stanford U. Psychology Jennifer Cole, Northwestern U. Linguistics Veneeta Dayal, Yale U. Linguistics Joy Hirsch, Haskins Labs/Yale U. Psychiatry and Neurobiology Deadline: 11:59 PM of your local time zone on Monday June 10th, Monday June 17th, 2019 Notification: Monday July 15th, 2019 Format: Two pages, 8.5? x 11? or A4, comprising text, figures, tables, references, etc., as needed. Please maintain 1? margins on all sides, and use at least size 12 font. Abstracts should be headed by the title in bold, and should not contain any author information.Please submit your abstracts using the form at: http://tinyurl.com/meaningflux and address any questions to meaninginflux at gmail.com . Confirmed scientific committee: Claire Bowern, Yale U. Linguistics Ant?nio Branco, U. of Lisbon Informatics Kathryn Davidson, Harvard U. Linguistics Ashwini Deo, The Ohio State U. Linguistics Kathryn Franich, U. of Delaware Linguistics and Cognitive Science Roberta Golinkoff, U. of Delaware Education/Psychology/Linguistics Argyro Katsika, UC Santa Barbara Linguistics Mar?a Mercedes Pi?ango, Yale U. Linguistics/Psychology Jennie Pyers, Wellesley C. Psychology Federico Rossano, UC San Diego Cognitive Science Paula Rubio-Fern?ndez, MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences Petra Schumacher, U. of Cologne German Jason Shaw, Yale U. Linguistics Heike Wiese, Humboldt U. Linguistics Alan Yu, U. of Chicago Linguistics Executive committee: Mart?n Fuchs, Catalina Mourgues, Mar?a Mercedes Pi?ango, Jason Shaw, Jisu Sheen, Nanyan Wu, and Muye (Andy) Zhang Organizing committee: ExCom + Sarah Babinski, Randi Martinez, Joshua Phillips, and Kate Stanton -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lauersdorf at uky.edu Mon Jun 17 13:21:56 2019 From: lauersdorf at uky.edu (Lauersdorf, Mark) Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 17:21:56 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] course cluster for historical sociolinguistics at the 2019 Linguistic Institute (UC Davis) Message-ID: Attending the upcoming 2019 Linguistic Institute at UC Davis (June 24 ? July 19, 2019) ? As you make your final course selections, consider maximizing your Historical Sociolinguistics experience by choosing from the following course cluster (assembled by the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS)): Disciplinary Core: - 152: Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Robert Bayley). - 161: Introduction to Historical Linguistics (Lyle Campbell). - 250: Historical Sociolinguistics (Mark Richard Lauersdorf). - 261: Advanced Historical Linguistics (Brian Joseph, Richard Janda). Selected Methods / Tools: - 231: Advanced Statistics and Data Analysis (Santiago Barreda). - 331: Corpus Linguistics (Stefan Th. Gries). - 337: Modeling Linguistic Networks (Rory Turnbull). Selected Areas of Application: - 356: Pidgins and Creoles (Marlyse Baptista). - 380: Folk Linguistics and Language Regard (Dennis Preston). - 381: Topics in Sociolinguistics and Computer-Mediated Communication (Marisa Brook, Emily Blamire). [https://lsa2019.ucdavis.edu/course-description/]. Courses at all levels! Combinable for numerous areas of interest, emphasis, engagement, and expertise! Equip yourself with a toolkit for your historical sociolinguistic research! The NARNiHS Steering Group: Josh Brown (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire). Alexandra D?Arcy (University of Victoria). Mark Richard Lauersdorf (University of Kentucky). Joseph Salmons (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Israel Sanz-S?nchez (West Chester University). Nandi Sims (The Ohio State University). Fernando Tejedo-Herrero (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Donald Tuten (Emory University). Kelly E. Wright (University of Michigan). narnihs [dot] org From lauersdorf at uky.edu Mon Jun 24 18:28:53 2019 From: lauersdorf at uky.edu (Lauersdorf, Mark) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 22:28:53 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Call for Abstracts - North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) - Second Annual Meeting Message-ID: The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its Second Annual Meeting: Saturday, 4 January 2020. Co-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Deadline for receipt of abstracts: *** Monday, 5 August 2019, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time ***. Late abstracts will not be considered. NARNiHS welcomes abstracts in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application/development of sociolinguistic theories, models, and methods for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, and methodologies easily find their place within the field, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. Abstracts will be accepted for both 20-minute papers and posters. Please note that, at the NARNiHS annual meeting, poster presentations are an integral part of the conference (not second-tier presentations). Abstracts will be assigned a paper or a poster presentation based on determinations in the review process about the most effective format for the submission. However, if you prefer that your submission be considered primarily for poster presentation, please specify this in your abstract. Abstracts should clearly articulate how the research in the presentation advances knowledge in the field of historical sociolinguistics. Authors should be explicit about which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued; and data sources and examples should be sufficiently (if briefly) presented so as to allow reviewers a full understanding of the scope and claims of the research. General Requirements: 1) Abstracts must be submitted electronically, using the following link: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/narnihs2020 . 2) Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts: one single-author abstract and one co-authored abstract. 3) Authors may not submit identical abstracts for presentation at the NARNiHS meeting and at the LSA Annual Meeting or one of the other LSA Sister Societies (ADS, ANS, NAAHoLS, SCiL, SPCL, SSILA). 4) Specify in the abstract if you prefer that your submission be considered primarily for a poster presentation. 5) After an abstract has been submitted, no changes of author, title, or wording of the abstract, other than those due to typographical errors, are permitted. If accepted, authors will be contacted for a final version for the abstract booklet. 6) Papers and posters must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. 7) An LCD projector with sound will be available for all paper presentations. If you will need other equipment, please state this in your proposal. If your laptop (or other presentation device) requires a special adapter to connect to a standard projector, please be sure that you bring that adapter with you (we cannot guarantee that adapters will be available on site). 8) Authors are expected to attend the conference and present their own papers and posters. Abstract Format Guidelines: 1) Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. 2) Abstracts must fit on one standard 8.5x11 inch page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12 point. All additional content (visualizations, trees, tables, figures, captions, examples, and references) must fit on a single (1) additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed. 3) Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. If you identify yourself in any way on the abstract itself (including indirect identification, e.g. "In Bly (1992)...I"), the abstract will be rejected without being evaluated. In addition, be sure to anonymize your PDF document by clicking on "File", then "Properties?, removing your name if it appears in the "Author" line of the ?Description? tab, and re-saving before submitting it. Please be aware that abstract file names are not automatically anonymized; do not use your name (e.g. Smith_Abstract2019.pdf) when saving your abstract in PDF format, but rather, use non-identifying information (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe_NARNiHS2020.pdf). Contact NARNiHistSoc at gmail.com with any questions. http://narnihs.org From patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk Wed Jul 3 13:15:24 2019 From: patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk (HONEYBONE Patrick) Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 17:15:24 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Second call: Fourth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology Message-ID: FOURTH EDINBURGH SYMPOSIUM ON HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY 9th - 10th DECEMBER 2019 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for abstracts: 15th July 2019 What do we need to consider in order to understand the innovation and propagation of phonological change, and to reconstruct past phonological states? The Fourth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology will offer an opportunity to discuss fundamental questions in historical phonology as well as specific analyses of historical data. Our plenary speaker is: * DARYA KAVITSKAYA (University of California, Berkeley) The invited speaker will address foundational issues in the discipline over two one-hour slots, one on each day of the symposium, and there will be considerable time allocated to discussion. http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/symposium-on-historical-phonology/eshp4/ ------------------------ BACKGROUND We see historical phonology as the branch of linguistics which links phonology to the past in any way. Its key concerns are (i) how and why the phonology of languages changes in diachrony, and (ii) the reconstruction of past synchronic stages of languages? phonologies. These are inextricably linked: we need to understand what the past stages of languages were in order to understand which changes have occurred, and we need to understand which kinds of changes are possible and how they are implemented in order to reconstruct past synchronic stages. We define phonology, broadly, as that part of language which deals with the patterning of the units used in speech, and we see historical phonology as an inherently inter(sub)disciplinary enterprise. In order to understand (i) and (ii), we need to combine insights from theoretical phonology, phonetics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, philology, and, no doubt, other areas. We need to interact with the traditions of scholarship that have grown up around individual languages and language families and with disciplines like history, sociology and palaeography. The kinds of questions that we ask include at least the following: - Which changes are possible in phonology? - What is the precise patterning of particular changes in the history of specific languages? - How do changes arise and spread through communities? - Are there characteristics that phonological changes (or particular types of changes) always show? - What counts as evidence for change, or for the reconstruction of previous stages of languages? phonologies? - What kinds of factors can motivate or constrain change? - Are there factors which lead to stability in language, and militate against change? - To what extent is phonological change independent of changes that occur at other levels of the grammar, such as morphology, syntax or semantics? - What is the relationship between the study of completed phonological changes and of variation and change in progress? - What is the relationship between phonological change and (first and second) language acquisition? - What types of units and domains, at both segmental and prosodic levels, do we need in order to capture phonological change? - How can the results of historical phonology inform phonological theorising? - How does phonologisation proceed ? how do non-phonological pressures come to be reflected in phonology? - How can contact between speakers of different languages, or between speakers of distinct varieties of the same language, lead to phonological change, or to the creation of new phonological systems? - How has historical phonology developed as an academic enterprise? We invite one-page abstracts addressing these, or any other questions relevant to the symposium topics, by 15 July 2019. ------------------------ Submission Instructions: Please submit your abstracts via EasyAbs. Abstracts should not exceed one A4 or US Letter page with 2.5 cm or 1 inch margins in a 12pt font. The file should not include any information identifying the author(s). All examples and references in the abstract should be included on the one single page, but it is enough, when referring to previous work, to cite ?Author (Date)? in the body of the abstract ? you do not need to give the full reference at the end of the abstract. Please do not submit an abstract if it goes over one page ? it will be rejected. To submit an abstract, please visit the EasyAbs submission page here: https://linguistlist.org/easyabs/eshp4 ------------------------ ORGANISERS The conference email address is: sympo-org at mlist.is.ed.ac.uk. COMMIITTEE Julian Bradfield Josef Fruehwald Annie Holtz Patrick Honeybone Pavel Iosad Nina Markl Benjamin Molineaux Jakub Musil Michael Ramsammy Matthew Sung ADVISORY BOARD Ricardo Berm?dez-Otero (University of Manchester) David Bowie (University of Alaska ? Anchorage) Andr?s Cser (P?zm?ny P?ter Catholic University) B. Elan Dresher (University of Toronto) D. Eric Holt (University of South Carolina) Jos? Ignacio Hualde (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Silke Hamann (University of Amsterdam) Larry Hyman (University of California Berkeley) Ad?le Jatteau (CNRS ? Universit? Paris VIII) James Kirby (University of Edinburgh) Bj?rn K?hnlein (Ohio State University) Martin K?mmel (University of Jena) Aditi Lahiri (University of Oxford) Roger Lass (University of Cape Town and University of Edinburgh) Laurel Mackenzie (New York University) Robert Mailhammer (University of Western Sydney) Donka Minkova (University of California Los Angeles) Betty Phillips (Indiana State University) Martha Ratliff (Wayne State University) Nikolaus Ritt (University of Vienna) Joseph C. Salmons (University of Wisconsin ? Madison) Tobias Scheer (University of Nice) Ranjan Sen (University of Sheffield) Patrycja Strycharczuk (University of Manchester) Meredith Tamminga (University of Pennsylvania) Danielle Turton (Newcastle University) Andrew Wedel (University of Arizona) Alan C. L. Yu (University of Chicago) The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk Wed Jul 3 13:15:34 2019 From: patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk (HONEYBONE Patrick) Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 17:15:34 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Papers in Historical Phonology: vol 3 complete; vol 4 begun Message-ID: Papers in Historical Phonology (PiHPh) publishes one volume per year (with articles added as soon as they are cleared for publication). All articles are available on a fully open access basis. ---------- Volume 4 (2019) has begun publication - it is available here: http://journals.ed.ac.uk/pihph/issue/view/253 Recently published in volume 4: * One rule, two frequency effects - Marjoleine Sloos * Testing the predictive strength of the comparative method: an ongoing experiment on unattested words in Western Kho?Bwa languages - Timotheus A. Bodt, Johann?Mattis List ---------- Volume 3 (2018) closed at the end of last year - it is available here: http://journals.ed.ac.uk/pihph/issue/view/228 Volume 2 has the following contents: * Aspiration in Basque - Jos? Ignacio Hualde * Gradient dissimilation in Mongolian: implications for diachrony - Ad?le Jatteau, Michaela Hejn? * The phonetics of NCh in Tumbuka and its implications for diachronic change - Laura J. Downing, Silke Hamann * The Anatolian Dissimilation Rule Revisited - Paul S. Cohen, Adam Hyllested * Against a regular epenthesis rule for Hmong-Mien - Martha Ratliff * Machine learning in diachronic corpus phonology: mining verse data to infer trajectories in English phonotactics - Andreas Baumann * The vowel /??/ ao in Gaelic dialects - Christopher Lewin * Effects of laryngeal features on vowel duration: implications for Winter?s Law - Chelsea Sanker ---------- Submissions for PiHPh are always welcome: http://journals.ed.ac.uk/pihph/about/policies#focusAndScope http://journals.ed.ac.uk/pihph/information/authors The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From eugen.hill at uni-koeln.de Wed Jul 10 05:25:29 2019 From: eugen.hill at uni-koeln.de (eugen.hill at uni-koeln.de) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 11:25:29 +0200 Subject: [Histling-l] Call for Papers, DGfS Hamburg 4-6 March 2020 In-Reply-To: <5de85cd4-81f4-d29a-c505-61a5844e8e8e@uzh.ch> Message-ID: <20190710112529.Horde.-GmUFcfZrNrnEujqX8_x0us@webmail.uni-koeln.de> CALL FOR PAPERS APPROACHING LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY FROM AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE TOWARDS A TYPOLOGY OF FUTURE TENSES Venue: Deutsche Gesellschaft f?r Sprachwissenschaft, Annual Meeting Hamburg 4?6 March 2020 Convenors: El?bieta Adamczyk, Martin Becker, Eugen Hill, and Bj?rn Wiemer Key-note speakers: Joanna Blaszczak Uta Rein?hl Call dead-line: 7 September 2019 Notification of acceptance: 15 September 2015 Unlike present and past tenses, future tenses exhibit a typologically robust tendency towards encoding modality. Accordingly, in the typological literature the future has been described both in temporal and modal terms (e.g. Comrie 1985, Dahl 1985, 2000b, Palmer 2001, among others). This might be ultimately rooted in the fact that the notion of future time is inherently linked to uncertainty given the fact that the current reality may develop in several ways. In a similar vein, future time reference is known to frequently interact with aspect and with aspectual properties of verbs and constructions (cf. Dickey 2000 for different Slavic languages). Accordingly, for instance Copley (2009) describes the encoding of future in terms of a hierarchical interplay between two operators, a modal and an aspectual one. However, these features inherent to future time reference from a most general point of view do not by themselves explain the considerable variation we observe regarding modality and aspectuality in future grams (henceforth ?futures?) of different languages. We assume that this variation can be better understood from a data-oriented semasiological perspective, which implies taking into account the diachronic dimension of futures. This amounts to finding answers to the following questions: (a) Which diachronic factors may be responsible for the observed variation in modal and aspectual values of futures? How to disentangle or isolate such factors in a particular case? (b) Which correlations are possible between these factors and the different kinds of modal and aspectual meanings in futures? (c) Which patterns of interaction between the different factors are actually attested in natural languages? How to search for and/or establish typologically recurrent patterns of interaction? (d) What are the possible trajectories of modality and aspectuality in the development of futures? How to search for and/or establish typologically recurrent trajectories? At present, three different factors potentially relevant to modality and aspectuality in futures may count as securely established. The first factor is the different sources of future grams. Numerous languages possess futures known to have only recently evolved out of forms or constructions with non-future semantics (cf. Ultan 1978, Bybee & Pagliuca 1987, Bybee & Dahl 1989, Bybee, Pagliuca & Perkins 1991, Dahl 2000a, Heine & Kuteva 2002, Wiemer & Hansen 2012). The most prominent sources, recurrently documented as generating futures in languages of different genetic and areal affiliations, are (a) tense-aspect forms (cf. the perfective future in North Slavic), (b) deontic (incl. volitional) modal expressions (cf. the shall- and will-futures in English, Balkan languages), (c) constructions with verbs of movement (cf. the komma-future in Swedish and the aller-future in French), (d) constructions with inchoative copula verbs (cf. the werden-future in German or the imperfective future in North Slavic). Less robustly attested are futures succeeding constructions with verbs such as say (in central eastern Bantu, cf. Botne 1998) or take (in Ukrainian, cf. Wiemer 2011: 745), futures evolved out of temporal adverbs (in Lingala, cf. Bybee, Pagliuca & Perkins 1991: 18?19) or, finally, futures reflecting an agent noun with copula verb (in Sanskrit, cf. Tichy 1992, Lowe 2017). Differences in the semantics of the source constructions may be relevant in two similar but distinct ways, both of which are commonly subsumed under the notion of ?source determination? (cf. Bybee, Perkins & Pagliuca 1994: 9, Hilpert 2008: 22?27, Rein?hl & Himmelmann 2017: 391?399). First, in futures evolved out of a modal source remnants of modal use may always be expected. Accordingly, futures with similar modal sources are likely to exhibit similar inherited modal readings (such as volition in want-futures) while futures resulting from a different source construction are less so. Second, futures with a similar source may be expected to develop similarly. For instance, futures evolved out of modals encoding obligation display a tendency towards developing epistemic semantic extensions whereas encoding epistemic modality is not typically associated with come- or go-futures (cf. Hilpert 2008: 184). The second factor may be the different mechanisms of future tense development. Here we may distinguish two mechanisms. The first mechanism is the grammaticalisation of an inherited content word, which might be a verb (turned into an auxiliary or semantically weak component of a serial verb construction) or an adverb with temporal semantics (cf. Bybee, Pagliuca & Perkins 1991, Bybee, Perkins & Pagliuca 1994, Heine & Kuteva 2002). The second possible mechanism of future evolvement is the more direct functional shift, i.e. ?hypoanalysis? from a non-future to a future (cf. Bybee, Perkins & Pagliuca 1994: 232?236, Haspelmath 1998, Rein?hl & Himmelmann 2016: 406?407). It is known that futures which emerged by hypoanalysis often allow for gnomic and habitual readings, although in purely semantic terms these two meanings are difficult to link to future time reference (cf. Haspelmath 1998: 31?33). A functional shift from a present tense or a subjunctive mood to a future is usually triggered by the development of a new present tense or a new subjunctive mood, which restricts the domain of the inherited formations to formerly marginal uses such as prediction, generalised truths, and habitual actions. By contrast, gnomic or habitual readings are not attested for many subtypes of grammaticalisation futures, such as come-, go- or take-futures, although their sources are equally capable of expressing generalised truths or repeated actions. Finally, the third factor potentially responsible for modal and aspectual readings in futures is the different behaviour of future tenses in the relevant language systems. It is known that the same language system may accommodate several functionally distinct futures, which may have emerged at different times and due to different mechanisms. In such a situation, it is natural to expect complex patterns of interaction between different future tenses which, in theory, might be responsible for different modal and aspectual flavours in futures (cf. Hedin 2000, Markopoulos 2009, Markopoulos et al. 2017 on Greek). The workshop invites papers addressing aimed at (a) identifying new factors potentially relevant to the emergence and subsequent development of modal and aspectual properties in futures, (b) describing patterns of interaction between these factors, (c) identifying recurrent patterns of interaction and establishing correlations with different kinds of modality and aspectuality in order to account for the typological variation. Please send your abstract of approximately 300 words before 7 September 2019 to eugen.hill at uni-koeln.de. -- Prof. Dr. Eugen Hill Historisch-Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft Institut f?r Linguistik Universit?t zu K?ln D-50923 K?ln Tel: +(49) 221 470 - 2282 Fax: +(49) 221 470 - 5947 From patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk Fri Jul 12 15:00:19 2019 From: patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk (HONEYBONE Patrick) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 19:00:19 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Final call: Fourth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <84C79760-F713-4D23-BC8B-588C00A2610C@ed.ac.uk> FOURTH EDINBURGH SYMPOSIUM ON HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY 9th - 10th DECEMBER 2019 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for abstracts: 15th July 2019 (We have heard that some people may not have received the first call, which came out a few months ago - if so, and you need more time to come up with an abstract, write to let us know and we will see what we can do.) What do we need to consider in order to understand the innovation and propagation of phonological change, and to reconstruct past phonological states? The Fourth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology will offer an opportunity to discuss fundamental questions in historical phonology as well as specific analyses of historical data. Our plenary speaker is: * DARYA KAVITSKAYA (University of California, Berkeley) The invited speaker will address foundational issues in the discipline over two one-hour slots, one on each day of the symposium, and there will be considerable time allocated to discussion. http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/symposium-on-historical-phonology/eshp4/ ------------------------ BACKGROUND We see historical phonology as the branch of linguistics which links phonology to the past in any way. Its key concerns are (i) how and why the phonology of languages changes in diachrony, and (ii) the reconstruction of past synchronic stages of languages? phonologies. These are inextricably linked: we need to understand what the past stages of languages were in order to understand which changes have occurred, and we need to understand which kinds of changes are possible and how they are implemented in order to reconstruct past synchronic stages. We define phonology, broadly, as that part of language which deals with the patterning of the units used in speech, and we see historical phonology as an inherently inter(sub)disciplinary enterprise. In order to understand (i) and (ii), we need to combine insights from theoretical phonology, phonetics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, philology, and, no doubt, other areas. We need to interact with the traditions of scholarship that have grown up around individual languages and language families and with disciplines like history, sociology and palaeography. The kinds of questions that we ask include at least the following: - Which changes are possible in phonology? - What is the precise patterning of particular changes in the history of specific languages? - How do changes arise and spread through communities? - Are there characteristics that phonological changes (or particular types of changes) always show? - What counts as evidence for change, or for the reconstruction of previous stages of languages? phonologies? - What kinds of factors can motivate or constrain change? - Are there factors which lead to stability in language, and militate against change? - To what extent is phonological change independent of changes that occur at other levels of the grammar, such as morphology, syntax or semantics? - What is the relationship between the study of completed phonological changes and of variation and change in progress? - What is the relationship between phonological change and (first and second) language acquisition? - What types of units and domains, at both segmental and prosodic levels, do we need in order to capture phonological change? - How can the results of historical phonology inform phonological theorising? - How does phonologisation proceed ? how do non-phonological pressures come to be reflected in phonology? - How can contact between speakers of different languages, or between speakers of distinct varieties of the same language, lead to phonological change, or to the creation of new phonological systems? - How has historical phonology developed as an academic enterprise? We invite one-page abstracts addressing these, or any other questions relevant to the symposium topics, by 15 July 2019. ------------------------ Submission Instructions: Please submit your abstracts via EasyAbs. Abstracts should not exceed one A4 or US Letter page with 2.5 cm or 1 inch margins in a 12pt font. The file should not include any information identifying the author(s). All examples and references in the abstract should be included on the one single page, but it is enough, when referring to previous work, to cite ?Author (Date)? in the body of the abstract ? you do not need to give the full reference at the end of the abstract. Please do not submit an abstract if it goes over one page ? it will be rejected. To submit an abstract, please visit the EasyAbs submission page here: https://linguistlist.org/easyabs/eshp4 ------------------------ ORGANISERS The conference email address is: sympo-org at mlist.is.ed.ac.uk. COMMIITTEE Julian Bradfield Josef Fruehwald Annie Holtz Patrick Honeybone Pavel Iosad Nina Markl Benjamin Molineaux Jakub Musil Michael Ramsammy Matthew Sung ADVISORY BOARD Ricardo Berm?dez-Otero (University of Manchester) David Bowie (University of Alaska ? Anchorage) Andr?s Cser (P?zm?ny P?ter Catholic University) B. Elan Dresher (University of Toronto) D. Eric Holt (University of South Carolina) Jos? Ignacio Hualde (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Silke Hamann (University of Amsterdam) Larry Hyman (University of California Berkeley) Ad?le Jatteau (CNRS ? Universit? Paris VIII) James Kirby (University of Edinburgh) Bj?rn K?hnlein (Ohio State University) Martin K?mmel (University of Jena) Aditi Lahiri (University of Oxford) Roger Lass (University of Cape Town and University of Edinburgh) Laurel Mackenzie (New York University) Robert Mailhammer (University of Western Sydney) Donka Minkova (University of California Los Angeles) Betty Phillips (Indiana State University) Martha Ratliff (Wayne State University) Nikolaus Ritt (University of Vienna) Joseph C. Salmons (University of Wisconsin ? Madison) Tobias Scheer (University of Nice) Ranjan Sen (University of Sheffield) Patrycja Strycharczuk (University of Manchester) Meredith Tamminga (University of Pennsylvania) Danielle Turton (Newcastle University) Andrew Wedel (University of Arizona) Alan C. L. Yu (University of Chicago) The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From karin.beijering at iln.uio.no Fri Jul 12 04:20:44 2019 From: karin.beijering at iln.uio.no (Karin Beijering) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 08:20:44 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Call for Papers: Workshop Variation and Change in the Verb Phrase Message-ID: <1562919641044.82307@iln.uio.no> Call for Papers Workshop: Variation and Change in the Verb Phrase The Language Change Research Group at the University of Oslo invites abstracts for the workshop Variation and Change in the Verb Phrase. The focus of this workshop is on syntactic change in the verbal domain, ranging from changes at earlier language stages to recent and ongoing changes in typologically different languages. Time and Place: December 5-6, 2019, University of Oslo Keynote Speakers: Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete) Peter Petr? (University of Antwerp) The purpose of the workshop is to bring together researchers who work on verbal syntax from a historical perspective from different theoretical orientations. We particularly welcome abstracts related, but not limited, to any aspects of syntactic change and/or the (interaction of the) following topics: * Benefactive constructions * Particle verb constructions * Reflexive constructions * Resultative constructions Abstracts of max. 300 words (excluding references, including author information and affiliation) should be sent to ?karin.beijering at iln.uio.no? by September 15, 2019. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by October 1. Organisation Committee: Karin Beijering, Kari Kinn, Yvonne van Baal & Ida Larsson Contact: karin.beijering at iln.uio.no -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pcoenen2 at uni-koeln.de Mon Jul 22 09:30:11 2019 From: pcoenen2 at uni-koeln.de (pcoenen2 at uni-koeln.de) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 15:30:11 +0200 Subject: [Histling-l] IERC / FoKo Message-ID: <20190722153011.Horde.KPl5VFWZlequlENlax_tM_z@webmail.uni-koeln.de> Dear colleagues, we would like to draw your attention to an upcoming conference, organised by the Department of Historical Comparative Linguistics at the University of Cologne, 30-31 March 2020. The 6th Indo-European Research Colloquium (IERC) / Indogermanisches Forschungskolloquium (FoKo) is a conference for PhD students and young postdocs who work in the field of Indo-European studies. Registration is open until 1 August 2019. Immediately after the IERC / FoKo, the Sound of Indo-European IV (1-3 April 2020) will take place in Cologne. For more information on both conferences see our websites: http://ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/ierc6.html (6th Indo-European Research Colloquium) http://ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/soie4.html (Sound of Indo-European IV) Yours, Pascal Coenen (University of Cologne) From lauersdorf at uky.edu Thu Aug 1 20:13:56 2019 From: lauersdorf at uky.edu (Lauersdorf, Mark) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 00:13:56 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Extended Deadline & Student Funding opportunities! - NARNiHS 2nd Annual Meeting Message-ID: *** Extended Deadline & Student Funding opportunities! *** 2nd Annual Meeting of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS). Thanks to generous funding from the "Historical Sociolinguistics Research and Training Program" sponsored by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and the Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (FWO), we are able to offer a limited number of stipends to cover conference registration and partial travel costs for *student* presentations at the NARNiHS 2nd Annual Meeting. Both European- and North-American-based students will be eligible to apply for this competitive funding after their abstracts have been accepted for the meeting. In light of this new development, and to encourage all interested scholars to send us their best work for the NARNiHS 2nd Annual Meeting, we are extending the deadline for submission of abstracts to: *** Friday, 16 August 2019, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time ***. Please see the original call for abstracts below and send us your latest work in historical sociolinguistics! ---------- Call for Abstracts ----------. The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its Second Annual Meeting: Saturday, 4 January 2020. Co-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside, in New Orleans, Louisiana. EXTENDED Deadline for receipt of abstracts: *** Friday, 16 August 2019, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time ***. Late abstracts will not be considered. NARNiHS welcomes abstracts in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application/development of sociolinguistic theories, models, and methods for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, and methodologies easily find their place within the field, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. Abstracts will be accepted for both 20-minute papers and posters. Please note that, at the NARNiHS annual meeting, poster presentations are an integral part of the conference (not second-tier presentations). Abstracts will be assigned a paper or a poster presentation based on determinations in the review process about the most effective format for the submission. However, if you prefer that your submission be considered primarily for poster presentation, please specify this in your abstract. Abstracts should clearly articulate how the research in the presentation advances knowledge in the field of historical sociolinguistics. Authors should be explicit about which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued; and data sources and examples should be sufficiently (if briefly) presented so as to allow reviewers a full understanding of the scope and claims of the research. General Requirements: 1) Abstracts must be submitted electronically, using the following link: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/narnihs2020 . 2) Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts: one single-author abstract and one co-authored abstract. 3) Authors may not submit identical abstracts for presentation at the NARNiHS meeting and at the LSA Annual Meeting or one of the other LSA Sister Societies (ADS, ANS, NAAHoLS, SCiL, SPCL, SSILA). 4) Specify in the abstract if you prefer that your submission be considered primarily for a poster presentation. 5) After an abstract has been submitted, no changes of author, title, or wording of the abstract, other than those due to typographical errors, are permitted. If accepted, authors will be contacted for a final version for the abstract booklet. 6) Papers and posters must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. 7) An LCD projector with sound will be available for all paper presentations. If you will need other equipment, please state this in your proposal. If your laptop (or other presentation device) requires a special adapter to connect to a standard projector, please be sure that you bring that adapter with you (we cannot guarantee that adapters will be available on site). 8) Authors are expected to attend the conference and present their own papers and posters. Abstract Format Guidelines: 1) Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. 2) Abstracts must fit on one standard 8.5x11 inch page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12 point. All additional content (visualizations, trees, tables, figures, captions, examples, and references) must fit on a single (1) additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed. 3) Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. If you identify yourself in any way on the abstract itself (including indirect identification, e.g. "In Bly (1992)...I"), the abstract will be rejected without being evaluated. In addition, be sure to anonymize your PDF document by clicking on "File", then "Properties?, removing your name if it appears in the "Author" line of the ?Description? tab, and re-saving before submitting it. Please be aware that abstract file names are not automatically anonymized; do not use your name (e.g. Smith_Abstract2019.pdf) when saving your abstract in PDF format, but rather, use non-identifying information (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe_NARNiHS2020.pdf). Contact NARNiHistSoc at gmail.com with any questions. http://narnihs.org/ From lauersdorf at uky.edu Sun Aug 11 17:27:11 2019 From: lauersdorf at uky.edu (Lauersdorf, Mark) Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 21:27:11 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] FINAL CALL - NARNiHS 2nd Annual Meeting (competitive student funding available!) Message-ID: *** FINAL CALL ***. 2nd Annual Meeting of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS). STUDENT FUNDING: Thanks to generous funding from the "Historical Sociolinguistics Research and Training Program" sponsored by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and the Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (FWO), we are able to offer a limited number of stipends to cover conference registration and partial travel costs for *student* presentations at the NARNiHS 2nd Annual Meeting. Both European- and North-American-based students will be eligible to apply for this competitive funding after their abstracts have been accepted for the meeting. FINAL DEADLINE for submission of all abstracts: *** Friday, 16 August 2019, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time ***. For details, please see the original call for abstracts below and send us your latest work in historical sociolinguistics! ---------- Call for Abstracts ----------. The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its Second Annual Meeting: Saturday, 4 January 2020. Co-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside, in New Orleans, Louisiana. FINAL Deadline for receipt of abstracts: *** Friday, 16 August 2019, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time ***. Late abstracts will not be considered. NARNiHS welcomes abstracts in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application/development of sociolinguistic theories, models, and methods for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, and methodologies easily find their place within the field, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. Abstracts will be accepted for both 20-minute papers and posters. Please note that, at the NARNiHS annual meeting, poster presentations are an integral part of the conference (not second-tier presentations). Abstracts will be assigned a paper or a poster presentation based on determinations in the review process about the most effective format for the submission. However, if you prefer that your submission be considered primarily for poster presentation, please specify this in your abstract. Abstracts should clearly articulate how the research in the presentation advances knowledge in the field of historical sociolinguistics. Authors should be explicit about which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued; and data sources and examples should be sufficiently (if briefly) presented so as to allow reviewers a full understanding of the scope and claims of the research. General Requirements: 1) Abstracts must be submitted electronically, using the following link: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/narnihs2020 . 2) Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts: one single-author abstract and one co-authored abstract. 3) Authors may not submit identical abstracts for presentation at the NARNiHS meeting and at the LSA Annual Meeting or one of the other LSA Sister Societies (ADS, ANS, NAAHoLS, SCiL, SPCL, SSILA). 4) Specify in the abstract if you prefer that your submission be considered primarily for a poster presentation. 5) After an abstract has been submitted, no changes of author, title, or wording of the abstract, other than those due to typographical errors, are permitted. If accepted, authors will be contacted for a final version for the abstract booklet. 6) Papers and posters must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. 7) An LCD projector with sound will be available for all paper presentations. If you will need other equipment, please state this in your proposal. If your laptop (or other presentation device) requires a special adapter to connect to a standard projector, please be sure that you bring that adapter with you (we cannot guarantee that adapters will be available on site). 8) Authors are expected to attend the conference and present their own papers and posters. Abstract Format Guidelines: 1) Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. 2) Abstracts must fit on one standard 8.5x11 inch page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12 point. All additional content (visualizations, trees, tables, figures, captions, examples, and references) must fit on a single (1) additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed. 3) Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. If you identify yourself in any way on the abstract itself (including indirect identification, e.g. "In Bly (1992)...I"), the abstract will be rejected without being evaluated. In addition, be sure to anonymize your PDF document by clicking on "File", then "Properties?, removing your name if it appears in the "Author" line of the ?Description? tab, and re-saving before submitting it. Please be aware that abstract file names are not automatically anonymized; do not use your name (e.g. Smith_Abstract2019.pdf) when saving your abstract in PDF format, but rather, use non-identifying information (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe_NARNiHS2020.pdf). Contact NARNiHistSoc at gmail.com with any questions. http://narnihs.org . From P.Karatsareas at westminster.ac.uk Tue Sep 3 12:11:43 2019 From: P.Karatsareas at westminster.ac.uk (Petros Karatsareas) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 16:11:43 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] English Language and Linguistics Research Seminars, University of Westminster Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to announce this year?s English Language and Linguistics Research Seminars. The programme (attached) features talks on a diverse and fascinating range of topics: from Anglo-Italian language contact in the 15th century and urban multilingualism in 16th- and 17th century England to literature and art as a cognitive object and using linguistics to detect false confessions ?and more! Seminars take place every two weeks on Wednesdays at 16:00 in room UG04 on our main campus at 309 Regent Street W1B 2HW. Everyone is welcome to attend. We are looking forward to seeing you there. With best wishes, Petros ?? Dr Petros Karatsareas Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics Course Leader for MA English Language Co-Director of Cyprus Centre @ Westminster University of Westminster School of Humanities 309 Regent Street London W1B 2HW http://westminster.academia.edu/PetrosKaratsareas | orcid.org/0000-0001-5339-4136 | @pkaratsareas The Gr?nglish Project with Anna Charalambidou in-cyprus piece Alpha Cyprus interview (in Greek) Greek Cypriot London: Camden to Enfield on the 29 bus project with Athena Mandis Being Human Festival website BBC3 Free Thinking programme Islington Gazette piece CYBC (???) coverage Recent publications: ?The fragile future of the Cypriot Greek language in the UK?, British Academy Review ?Attitudes towards Cypriot Greek and Standard Modern Greek in London?s Greek Cypriot community?, International Journal of Bilingualism The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. 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The programme (attached) features talks on a diverse and fascinating range of topics: from Anglo-Italian language contact in the 15th century and urban multilingualism in 16th- and 17th century England to literature and art as a cognitive object and using linguistics to detect false confessions ?and more! Seminars take place every two weeks on Wednesdays at 16:00 in room UG04 on our main campus at 309 Regent Street W1B 2HW. Everyone is welcome to attend. We are looking forward to seeing you there. With best wishes, Petros ?? Dr Petros Karatsareas Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics Course Leader for MA English Language Co-Director of Cyprus Centre @ Westminster University of Westminster School of Humanities 309 Regent Street London W1B 2HW http://westminster.academia.edu/PetrosKaratsareas | orcid.org/0000-0001-5339-4136 | @pkaratsareas The Gr?nglish Project with Anna Charalambidou in-cyprus piece Alpha Cyprus interview (in Greek) Greek Cypriot London: Camden to Enfield on the 29 bus project with Athena Mandis Being Human Festival website BBC3 Free Thinking programme Islington Gazette piece CYBC (???) coverage Recent publications: ?The fragile future of the Cypriot Greek language in the UK?, British Academy Review ?Attitudes towards Cypriot Greek and Standard Modern Greek in London?s Greek Cypriot community?, International Journal of Bilingualism The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. 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David Denison ______________________________________________________ Job vacancy: Research Associate in Linguistics/English Language, University of Manchester, UK (HUM-14501) Employment type: full-time, fixed-term position for three years from 2 December 2019 to 1 December 2022 A postdoctoral research associate position is available at the University of Manchester in support of a major multidisplicinary AHRC-funded project ? ?Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers?. This project will use a uniquely rich, but largely unexplored, archive to explore a set of research questions on reading, letter-writing and language practices in Georgian England. It will shed new light on the culture of English society in this period and will help to launch an exciting new genre of Hamilton studies. The successful candidate will work with a team of experts from the fields of linguistics, history, literary studies and digital humanities to develop a complete digital edition of the Mary Hamilton Papers archive, and to investigate everyday language of the social networks around Mary Hamilton during the late Georgian period, evidence for the influence of language standardisation forces on letter-writing and language use generally, and how the social networks around Hamilton reflect the progress of the wholesale realignment of the English auxiliary verb system in the late Modern English period. The post-holder will be given career mentoring and support throughout their employment. The ideal candidate should have completed a PhD in Linguistics or English Language, focussing on some or all of the period 1700-1900, and which demonstrates one or more of the following areas of research expertise: social network analysis, language variation and change, historical sociopragmatics, letter-writing practices, normative linguistics, historical syntax, and competence in corpus linguistics research. Applicants should also have experience of working with original source materials and should be able to read a variety of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century handwriting. Web address for applications and further particulars of the job: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/internal/displayjob.aspx?jobid=17861 Closing date for the receipt of applications: 30 September 2019 (midnight). We expect to hold interviews for the post between 8 and 10 October 2019. Enquiries about vacancy shortlisting and interviews can be addressed to David Denison (david.denison at manchester.ac.uk) or Nuria Y??ez-Bouza (nuria.yanez-bouza at manchester.ac.uk). -- <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Professor David Denison, FBA Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics School of Arts, Languages and Cultures University of Manchester | Manchester M13 9PL | U.K. david.denison at manchester.ac.uk https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/david.denison.html http://www.projects.alc.manchester.ac.uk/image-to-text/ From evanslinguist at berkeley.edu Mon Jul 15 01:18:43 2019 From: evanslinguist at berkeley.edu (Jonathan Evans) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 01:18:43 -0400 Subject: [Histling-l] Final call: Fourth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology In-Reply-To: <84C79760-F713-4D23-BC8B-588C00A2610C@ed.ac.uk> References: <84C79760-F713-4D23-BC8B-588C00A2610C@ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: Hi Patrick, Thanks for this notice. I will try to get my abstract in by the end of the 15th, but it might be a few hours late. Sounds like a great conference! Jonathan On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 3:22 PM HONEYBONE Patrick < patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk> wrote: > FOURTH EDINBURGH SYMPOSIUM ON HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY > > 9th - 10th DECEMBER 2019 > > FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS > > Deadline for abstracts: 15th July 2019 > > (We have heard that some people may not have received the first call, > which came out a few months ago - if so, and you need more time to come up > with an abstract, write to let us know and we will see what we can do.) > > What do we need to consider in order to understand the innovation and > propagation of phonological change, and to reconstruct past phonological > states? The Fourth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology will offer > an opportunity to discuss fundamental questions in historical phonology as > well as specific analyses of historical data. > > Our plenary speaker is: > * DARYA KAVITSKAYA (University of California, Berkeley) > > The invited speaker will address foundational issues in the discipline > over two one-hour slots, one on each day of the symposium, and there will > be considerable time allocated to discussion. > > http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/symposium-on-historical-phonology/eshp4/ > > ------------------------ > > BACKGROUND > > We see historical phonology as the branch of linguistics which links > phonology to the past in any way. Its key concerns are (i) how and why the > phonology of languages changes in diachrony, and (ii) the reconstruction of > past synchronic stages of languages? phonologies. These are inextricably > linked: we need to understand what the past stages of languages were in > order to understand which changes have occurred, and we need to understand > which kinds of changes are possible and how they are implemented in order > to reconstruct past synchronic stages. > > We define phonology, broadly, as that part of language which deals with > the patterning of the units used in speech, and we see historical phonology > as an inherently inter(sub)disciplinary enterprise. In order to understand > (i) and (ii), we need to combine insights from theoretical phonology, > phonetics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, philology, and, no doubt, other > areas. We need to interact with the traditions of scholarship that have > grown up around individual languages and language families and with > disciplines like history, sociology and palaeography. > > The kinds of questions that we ask include at least the following: > > - Which changes are possible in phonology? > - What is the precise patterning of particular changes in the history of > specific languages? > - How do changes arise and spread through communities? > - Are there characteristics that phonological changes (or particular types > of changes) always show? > - What counts as evidence for change, or for the reconstruction of > previous stages of languages? phonologies? > - What kinds of factors can motivate or constrain change? > - Are there factors which lead to stability in language, and militate > against change? > - To what extent is phonological change independent of changes that occur > at other levels of the grammar, such as morphology, syntax or semantics? > - What is the relationship between the study of completed phonological > changes and of variation and change in progress? > - What is the relationship between phonological change and (first and > second) language acquisition? > - What types of units and domains, at both segmental and prosodic levels, > do we need in order to capture phonological change? > - How can the results of historical phonology inform phonological > theorising? > - How does phonologisation proceed ? how do non-phonological pressures > come to be reflected in phonology? > - How can contact between speakers of different languages, or between > speakers of distinct varieties of the same language, lead to phonological > change, or to the creation of new phonological systems? > - How has historical phonology developed as an academic enterprise? > > We invite one-page abstracts addressing these, or any other questions > relevant to the symposium topics, by 15 July 2019. > > ------------------------ > > Submission Instructions: > > Please submit your abstracts via EasyAbs. Abstracts should not exceed one > A4 or US Letter page with 2.5 cm or 1 inch margins in a 12pt font. The file > should not include any information identifying the author(s). All examples > and references in the abstract should be included on the one single page, > but it is enough, when referring to previous work, to cite ?Author (Date)? > in the body of the abstract ? you do not need to give the full reference at > the end of the abstract. Please do not submit an abstract if it goes over > one page ? it will be rejected. > > To submit an abstract, please visit the EasyAbs submission page here: > > https://linguistlist.org/easyabs/eshp4 > > ------------------------ > > ORGANISERS > > The conference email address is: sympo-org at mlist.is.ed.ac.uk. > > COMMIITTEE > Julian Bradfield > Josef Fruehwald > Annie Holtz > Patrick Honeybone > Pavel Iosad > Nina Markl > Benjamin Molineaux > Jakub Musil > Michael Ramsammy > Matthew Sung > > ADVISORY BOARD > Ricardo Berm?dez-Otero (University of Manchester) > David Bowie (University of Alaska ? Anchorage) > Andr?s Cser (P?zm?ny P?ter Catholic University) > B. Elan Dresher (University of Toronto) > D. Eric Holt (University of South Carolina) > Jos? Ignacio Hualde (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) > Silke Hamann (University of Amsterdam) > Larry Hyman (University of California Berkeley) > Ad?le Jatteau (CNRS ? Universit? Paris VIII) > James Kirby (University of Edinburgh) > Bj?rn K?hnlein (Ohio State University) > Martin K?mmel (University of Jena) > Aditi Lahiri (University of Oxford) > Roger Lass (University of Cape Town and University of Edinburgh) > Laurel Mackenzie (New York University) > Robert Mailhammer (University of Western Sydney) > Donka Minkova (University of California Los Angeles) > Betty Phillips (Indiana State University) > Martha Ratliff (Wayne State University) > Nikolaus Ritt (University of Vienna) > Joseph C. Salmons (University of Wisconsin ? Madison) > Tobias Scheer (University of Nice) > Ranjan Sen (University of Sheffield) > Patrycja Strycharczuk (University of Manchester) > Meredith Tamminga (University of Pennsylvania) > Danielle Turton (Newcastle University) > Andrew Wedel (University of Arizona) > Alan C. L. 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The conference will take place immediately following the Indogermanisches Forschungskolloquium (FoKo) / Indo-European Research Colloquium (IERC), 30-31 March 2020 in Cologne. For more information on both conferences see our websites: http://ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/soie4.html (Sound of Indo-European IV) http://ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/ierc6.html (6th Indo-European Research Colloquium) Yours, Michael Frotscher (Cologne) -- Dr. Michael Frotscher Universit?t zu K?ln Institut f?r Linguistik Abt. Historisch-Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft D-50923 K?ln +49-221-470 41 12 http://ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/frotscher.html From george.walkden at uni-konstanz.de Wed Sep 11 05:51:58 2019 From: george.walkden at uni-konstanz.de (George Walkden) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 11:51:58 +0200 Subject: [Histling-l] Call for papers: Diachronic Generative Syntax 22 Message-ID: <1A5F87B8-1C51-4ADE-8F8B-62680570877A@uni-konstanz.de> (With apologies for cross-posting) The Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) conference is a forum for people to present work on diachronic and historical syntax that is informed by, and informs, generative syntactic theory. The invited speakers for the 22nd instantiation of DiGS, in Konstanz, Germany, are Anne Breitbarth (Ghent), Ashwini Deo (OSU), and Ian Roberts (Cambridge). There will also be a satellite workshop on ?Syntactic change in progress??, with invited speakers Sali Tagliamonte (Toronto) and David Willis (Cambridge). 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URL: From anna.carlier at sorbonne-universite.fr Wed Sep 11 06:18:16 2019 From: anna.carlier at sorbonne-universite.fr (Anna Carlier) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 12:18:16 +0200 Subject: [Histling-l] Postdoc Romance Linguistics, Sorbonne University Paris Message-ID: <54e2f806e8f3254bf5c34f48b3a99bf5@paris-sorbonne.fr> FULL-TIME POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER Field of specialization: Linguistics and Philology CLOSING DATE : September 25, 2019 DURATION OF THE CONTRACT : 11 months SALARY INDICATION : 2 410 ? gross monthly salary SORBONNE UNIVERSITY Sorbonne University was created on January 1, 2018, and is the result of the merger between Paris-Sorbonne University and Pierre and Marie Curie University. Sorbonne University is a multidisciplinary, world-class university, with a long tradition of academic excellence. Anchored in the heart of Paris, with a regional presence, it is s devoted to the success of its students and is committed to meeting the scientific challenges of the 21st century. (http://www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en) PROJECT CoRaLHis Comparing Romance Languages through History (CoRaLHis): building a multilingual parallel diachronic corpus (13th-18th C.) This project aims to provide a thorough understanding of how languages diverge from each other over time in the field of Romance languages. It is part of a long tradition of research on Romance studies initiated in the 19th century by the comparatist works of Diez or Meyer-L?bke, but takes advantage of new theoretical paradigms such as the theory of grammaticalization (see for example Hopper/Traugott 1983, Lehmann 1985, Narrog & Heine 2011) and the grammar of diachronic constructions (Traugott & Trousdale 2013). Based on the assumption that the different Romance languages evolve and innovate their grammar at a different rate and thus form a continuum of innovation compared to their common ancestor, Latin (cf. thematic issue of Folia Linguistica ?On the Pace of Grammaticalization in Romance?), the aim is to build a multilingual digital corpus of comparable texts from the 13th to 18th centuries for Romania?s three main area?s (Gallo-, Italo- and Ibero-Romance), in order to allow a large-scale and fine-grained empirically analysis of linguistic change in the different Romance languages. LABORATORY The researcher will be a member of the EA 4509 ?Meaning, Text, Computer Science, History?, which develops research in the fields of language and text history, language sciences, and computational linguistics. MISSION STATEMENT The researcher will be active in the research project ?Comparing Romance Languages through History (CoRaLHis): building a multilingual parallel diachronic corpus (13th-18th C.)? MAIN ACTIVITIES - Prospecting to gather appropriate textual resources for major Romance areas (Gallo-, Italo-, Ibero-Romance) - Definition of metadata common to the different languages (external variation criteria), definition of bibliographic records and their management, definition of common philological criteria - Definition of criteria for the selection of texts common to the different languages - Description by means of metadata and selection of texts from the corpus - Definition of the criteria for organizing the corpus in order to partition the corpus into sub-corpora - Definition of internal variation parameters for the different Romance varieties - Resolution of legal issues, in particular for published texts, so that the corpus can be in open access in the long term - Supervision of the standardization operations of the selected text resources REQUIREMENTS - PhD in Linguistics or Philology - Interest in history and digital philology - Expertise in philology, and knowledge of medieval and preclassical French, or a command of a Romance language other than French, and acquaintance with its premodern stages. - Knowledge of standard computer software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and, optionally, Access) - Willingness to learn standard corpus formats (Unicode text, XML, TEI) and conversion tools, in order to be able to supervise standardization operations of text resources - Excellent research skills - Excellent communicative, social, and organizational skills FURTHER INFORMATION For further information, please contact: Anna.Carlier at sorbonne-universite.fr From judithkaup at yahoo.com Tue Sep 17 06:50:17 2019 From: judithkaup at yahoo.com (Judith Kaup) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:50:17 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Histling-l] Cfp Leeds 2020 Literary Linguistics - Deadline extended References: <1285212098.2453601.1568717417415.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1285212098.2453601.1568717417415@mail.yahoo.com> With apologfies for cross-posting please find below and attached a cfp for Literary Linguistics.The deadline has been extended to 22 September 2019. Best wishes, Judith Dr Judith Kaup Englisches Seminar I Historische Englische Sprachwissenschaft Raum 1.208 Philosophikum Albertus-Magnus-Platz D-50923 K?ln +49(0)221-470-3039 judith.kaup at uni-koeln.de Callfor papers IMC 2020 LiteraryLinguistic Approaches to Old and Middle English Texts Aseries of sessions have represented the flourishing field of literarylinguistics at the IMC in the last three years, showing the greatpotential of literary linguistic methods for medieval studies. Thisyear?s thematic focus ?Borders? especially invites newcontributions to the field, which itself occupies a border spacebetween literary and linguistic studies. Exemplifying the creativeand scholarly potential of liminal spaces and the contact situationsthey enable, literary linguistics can contribute to a positive(re)evaluation of encountering the less familiar and incorporatingvarious approaches. This paper session encourages consideration ofOld and Middle English texts from a literary linguistic perspectiveto show the merits of negotiating disciplinary boundaries. Abstractsare invited for 20-minute papers discussing any aspect of literarylinguistics applied to texts composed in Old or Middle English, to bepresented during the International Medieval Congress at theUniversity of Leeds, 6?9 July 2020. Methods and topics may include,but are not limited to: - synchronic and diachronic approaches - quantitative and qualitative analysis - cognitive poetics - stylistics and translation - narratology - reader response - corpus approaches - metaphor - intertextuality - language contact - cross-cultural didactics - any other topic with significance to the field of stylistics/literary linguistics Abstractsshould be no longer than 250 words and should include your name,academic affiliation, and a short bio. 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One of the keys to examining these phenomena more closely is to clarify the relationship of underived and derived in verb sets such as causative verbs and decausativizing mechanisms. Given that derivational morphology is widely used in the Uralic languages, we seek to bring new light to its importance for etymology and the diachrony of languages. In this respect, the evidence of the Uralic languages is also of more general interest. We are interested in identifying the role of different morphological and structural units in the diachronic development of valence and verb, e.g.: ? Does the evidence of Uralic branches and individual languages show similar patterns of change, or are they mutually contradictory? ? How is grammatical information transferred from morphology to lexemes? ? To what extent does the pairing of verbs, i.e. the relationship between an underived and a derived word, reveal the diachrony of grammatically encoded lexemes? ? What are the origins of valence-related suffixes in Uralic languages? ? What valence-related derivational suffixes can be reconstructed for Proto-Uralic (PU) or intermediate branches? ? For what PU verbs can valence be reconstructed? ? Can we reconstruct PU derived verbs consisting of a verb root and valence-changing suffix? ? Was causativization as predominant in PU as in many contemporary Uralic languages? ? Was transitivity generally an inherent lexical property in PU, or were most/many verbs ambitransitive (labile)? The maximum length of each abstract is 3000 characters (including spaces). Abstract proposals must be submitted by September 30, 2019, using the electronic submission tool (for detailed information, see https://cifu13.univie.ac.at/call/). Upon submission, you should classify your abstract as a submission to the VIRSU symposium. In this conference, each participant can submit maximally two abstracts: one as the lead author (presenting author), one as a co-author. Please note that the abstracts must be in English. The title of the abstract, however, should be in the language in which you plan to give your talk. In addition to English, the actual papers can be presented in Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, German or Russian, in which case visual support in English is strongly recommended. For additional information about the International Congress for Finno-Ugric Studies, see https://cifu13.univie.ac.at/. Workshop organizers: Riho Gr?nthal (University of Helsinki), Johanna Nichols (University of California, Berkeley / University of Helsinki) Contact: riho.grunthal at helsinki.fi Literature Cennamo, Michela, Lars Hellan & A. L. Mal?chukov (eds.) 2017. Contrastive studies in verbal valency. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Dolovai, Dorottya 2001. A t?bbsz?r?s m?velt?s az obi-ugor nyelvekben. N?prajz ?s nyelvtudom?ny 41. 77?93. Gr?nthal, Riho & Johanna Nichols 2016. Transitivizing-detransitivizing typology and language family history. Lingua posnaniensis LVIII (2). 11?31. Kasik, Reet 2001. Analytic causatives in Estonian. In: Mati Erelt (ed.), Estonian typological studies V. Tartu: Tartu ?likooli Kirjastus. 77?122. Kulikov, Leonid, Andrej Malchukov and Peter de Swart (eds.) 2006. Case, Valency and Transitivity. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Kulikov, Leonid. 2011. Voice typology. In Jae Jung Song, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Typology, 368-398. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press. Lehtisalo, Toivo 1936: ?ber die prim?ren ururalischen Ableitungssuffixe. M?moires de la Soci?t? Finno-Ougrienne 72. Helsinki: Finno-Ugrian Society. Nichols, Johanna, David A. Peterson & Jonathan Barnes. 2004. Transitivizing and detransitivizing languages. Linguistic Typology 8:2.149?211. From brinton at mail.ubc.ca Wed Oct 2 14:20:52 2019 From: brinton at mail.ubc.ca (Laurel Brinton) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 11:20:52 -0700 Subject: [Histling-l] Call for proposals for special issue - ELL Message-ID: <1F95F12C-76BB-4252-9390-1BCD666E5D02@mail.ubc.ca> English Language and Linguistics (ELL) publishes one special issue each year, and we would now like to invite proposals for the special issue to be published in 2021. Special issues should be focused on a specific topic which is of key interest to specialists in the various sub-disciplines of English linguistics. The topics and contents of past special issues can be consulted by viewing back issues on the ELL website: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/english-language-and-linguistics As a rough guideline, a special issue should be a collection of 5-10 targeted (often commissioned) articles, including a lead article or 'perspectivizing' introduction by the editor(s), with a maximum length of 100,000 words for the volume. However, no strict format is prescribed and editors are welcome to propose novel formats (for example, articles may be followed by responses from others), although all articles submitted for a special issue will be subjected to the same rigorous quality and reviewing standards as regular submissions to English Language and Linguistics. The issue's editor(s) will collaborate closely with one of the regular editors of the journal during the reviewing stage and when deciding upon the ultimate selection of papers to be published. The deadline for the first drafts of articles is expected to be around 1 July 2020, and the final revised versions of all articles in the special issue must be submitted by 1 March 2021 at the latest (to be ready for publication in the second or third issue of the year). Proposals for a possible special issue should be no longer than 4 pages, including: - information on the relevance of the topic and on what makes it attractive to the international English Linguistics community - the special expertise of the editor(s) - a preliminary list of contributors - potentially, short abstracts of the papers Please send proposals by 15 November 2019 to the following email address: ellsubmissions at cambridge.org This will distribute the proposal to all three editors of ELL. Feel free to contact any or all of us in advance of this deadline if you have any queries about any of this this. We would encourage those thinking of submitting a proposal to contact us to discuss it. Laurel Brinton (brinton at mail.ubc.ca ) Patrick Honeybone (patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk ) Bernd Kortmann (bernd.kortmann at anglistik.uni-freiburg.de ) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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As a department and university, we are strongly committed to creating an inclusive and effective teaching, learning, research, and working environment for all. Responsibilities of the position include pursuing an active research program and teaching a total of four courses per year at the introductory, advanced undergraduate, and graduate levels. Responsibilities also include active participation in the academic life of the department, collaboration with units across campus (e.g., Computer Science, Modern and Classical Languages, Hispanic Studies), pursuing external funding, and providing service to the university and the discipline. Applicants are expected to have completed their PhD by August 2020. Interested applicants should apply online at: http://ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/251804. Applicants should submit the following: (1) letter of application, (2) current CV, (3) research statement (1-2 pages in which applicant describes current and future research agenda; upload as Specific Request 1), (4) a recent writing sample, (5) teaching statement (1-2 pages in which applicant discusses teaching philosophy and experiences; upload as Specific Request 2), and (6) a diversity statement (1-2 pages in which applicant reflects on commitments, approaches, and insights related to inclusion, diversity, and equity; upload as Specific Request 3). In addition, please provide the names and contact information for three references when prompted in the academic profile. This information may be utilized to solicit recommendation letters from your references within the employment system at a more advanced stage of the application process. All applications will be acknowledged. Deadline for the receipt of applications is November 18, 2019. For any questions relating to this position, please contact the chair of the search committee, Mark Richard Lauersdorf, at lauersdorf at uky.edu. The University of Kentucky is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from veterans, individuals with disabilities, women, African Americans, and all minorities. From lauersdorf at uky.edu Mon Oct 21 16:50:51 2019 From: lauersdorf at uky.edu (Lauersdorf, Mark R.) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 20:50:51 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Call for Abstracts - 2020 NARNiHS Research Incubator Message-ID: Call for Abstracts: *** 2020 NARNiHS Research Incubator ***. The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics at: KFLC - The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference ==> Abstract submission deadline: 25 November 2019, 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern Time). ==> Abstract submission portal: https://kflc.as.uky.edu/. ==> Conference: 16-18 April 2020 ? University of Kentucky ? Lexington, Kentucky, USA. The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its 2020 NARNiHS Research Incubator. Building on the success of last year?s inaugural event, this new kind of NARNiHS conference seeks to provide a collaborative environment where presenters bring work that is in-progress, exploratory, proof-of-concept, prototyping; and the audience actively participates in the brainstorming and workshopping of those new ideas. We see the NARNiHS Research Incubator as a place for testing/pushing boundaries; developing new theories, methods, models, tools; seeking feedback from peers willing to engage in productive assessment of fledgling ideas and nascent projects. Successful abstracts for this research incubator environment will demonstrate thorough grounding in the field, scientific rigor in the formulation of research questions, and promise for rich discussion. NARNiHS welcomes papers in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application/development of sociolinguistic theories, methods, and models for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, and methodologies easily find their place within the field, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. We are soliciting abstracts for 25-minute presentations. Abstracts should be no more than 500 words (not including examples and references). Abstracts will be accepted until 25 November 2019 ? late abstracts will not be considered! Authors should be explicit about which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued; and data sources and examples should be sufficiently (if briefly) presented, so as to allow reviewers a full understanding of the scope and claims of the research. Please note that the connection of your research to the field of historical sociolinguistics should be explicitly outlined in your abstract. To encourage maximum exchange of ideas in the brainstorming/workshopping environment of the NARNiHS Research Incubator, presentations will be grouped into thematic panels of three presentations, each panel followed by an hour-long discussion with the audience led by specialists. Discussion will encompass specific feedback on the individual papers as well as consideration of overarching questions of theory, methods, and models emerging from the papers. To facilitate such discussion, authors will be required to submit a draft of their presentation materials for distribution to the panel discussants and to the other presenters 10 days prior to the start of the conference. Abstracts are submitted through the KFLC website (https://kflc.as.uky.edu/): 1) create an account and log in. 2) follow the menu path: Call for Papers > Submit an Abstract. 3) read carefully and follow the general KFLC abstract submission guidelines and instructions. 4) NARNiHS is only accepting individual submissions, so the KFLC instructions regarding pre-organized panels do not apply for the NARNiHS Research Incubator sessions. 5) select the "Linguistics" track and indicate clearly at the very top of your abstract: "NARNiHS Abstract". *** Note for students ***: We are able to offer a limited number of stipends to cover conference registration and partial travel costs for student papers accepted for presentation at the 2020 NARNiHS Research Incubator. The NARNiHS Research Incubator is hosted within the framework of the longstanding conference, KFLC: the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference at the University of Kentucky. The KFLC has a tradition of attracting scholars from a broad range of languages and specializations and is pleased to include historical sociolinguistics in its linguistics division. Acceptance of a paper implies a commitment on the part of all participants to register and attend the conference. All presenters must pay the appropriate registration fee by 1 April 2020 to be included in the program. For NARNiHS-specific questions please contact the program committee for the NARNiHS Research Incubator at: NARNiHistSoc at gmail.com, http://narnihs.org. For general information about the overall conference please visit the KFLC website: https://kflc.as.uky.edu/. From lucius.antonius at gmail.com Tue Oct 22 09:08:59 2019 From: lucius.antonius at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Luzius_Th=C3=B6ny?=) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 15:08:59 +0200 Subject: [Histling-l] =?utf-8?q?Call_for_Abstracts_=E2=80=92_=22The_verb_?= =?utf-8?q?in_Northern_Europe=22=2C_workshop_at_the_16th_Fachtagung?= =?utf-8?q?_of_the_Society_for_Indo-European_Studies?= Message-ID: ------------------------------ Call for Abstracts Workshop "The verb in Northern Europe: Morphology between syntax and lexicon" 16th Fachtagung of the Society for Indo-European Studies "Beyond Formenlehre: Indo-European Morphology with fuzzy boundaries and interface phenomena" 7.-10. September 2020 at the University of Zurich ------------------------------ We invite contributions that deal with topics of Indo-European verbal morphology as it intersects with syntax and the lexicon. The workshop will focus on the Indo-European languages of ?Northern European?, and we particularly but not exclusively welcome talks that compare the development of the verbal systems in the Germanic, Baltic and Slavic branches. Papers discussing an individual issue of one of the three branches or other IE languages will be welcome as well, if they are relevant for the main theme of the workshop. Read more in the Call for Abstracts: https://www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:42f21abb-7bf7-4e7e-9e40-f041c0cdc5c0/WS_Call_Verb-NE-2.pdf Keynote speaker: Miguel Villanueva Svensson (Vilnius University) Title of the keynote: Northern Indo-European nasal presents ? beyond anticausatives and inchoatives. Discussant: Ilja Ser?ant (Leipzig University) The working languages of our workshop are English, French, and German. Please send abstracts to fachtagung2020 at ivs.uzh.ch until 1. December 2019 and mention the workshop and the title of the presentation in the subject of your e-mail. 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Building on the success of last year's inaugural event, this new kind of NARNiHS conference seeks to provide a collaborative environment where presenters bring work that is in-progress, exploratory, proof-of-concept, prototyping; and the audience actively participates in the brainstorming and workshopping of those new ideas. We see the NARNiHS Research Incubator as a place for testing/pushing boundaries; developing new theories, methods, models, tools; seeking feedback from peers willing to engage in productive assessment of fledgling ideas and nascent projects. Successful abstracts for this research incubator environment will demonstrate thorough grounding in the field, scientific rigor in the formulation of research questions, and promise for rich discussion. NARNiHS welcomes papers in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application/development of sociolinguistic theories, methods, and models for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, and methodologies easily find their place within the field, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. We are soliciting abstracts for 25-minute presentations. Abstracts should be no more than 500 words (not including examples and references). Abstracts will be accepted until 25 November 2019 - late abstracts will not be considered! Authors should be explicit about which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued; and data sources and examples should be sufficiently (if briefly) presented, so as to allow reviewers a full understanding of the scope and claims of the research. Please note that the connection of your research to the field of historical sociolinguistics should be explicitly outlined in your abstract. To encourage maximum exchange of ideas in the brainstorming/workshopping environment of the NARNiHS Research Incubator, presentations will be grouped into thematic panels of three presentations, each panel followed by an hour-long discussion with the audience led by specialists. Discussion will encompass specific feedback on the individual papers as well as consideration of overarching questions of theory, methods, and models emerging from the papers. To facilitate such discussion, authors will be required to submit a draft of their presentation materials for distribution to the panel discussants and to the other presenters 10 days prior to the start of the conference. Abstracts are submitted through the KFLC website (https://kflc.as.uky.edu/): 1) create an account and log in. 2) follow the menu path: Call for Papers > Submit an Abstract. 3) read carefully and follow the general KFLC abstract submission guidelines and instructions. 4) NARNiHS is only accepting individual submissions, so the KFLC instructions regarding pre-organized panels do not apply for the NARNiHS Research Incubator sessions. 5) select the "Linguistics" track and indicate clearly at the very top of your abstract: "NARNiHS Abstract". *** Note for students ***: We are able to offer a limited number of stipends to cover conference registration and partial travel costs for student papers accepted for presentation at the 2020 NARNiHS Research Incubator. The NARNiHS Research Incubator is hosted within the framework of the longstanding conference, KFLC: the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference at the University of Kentucky. The KFLC has a tradition of attracting scholars from a broad range of languages and specializations and is pleased to include historical sociolinguistics in its linguistics division. Acceptance of a paper implies a commitment on the part of all participants to register and attend the conference. All presenters must pay the appropriate registration fee by 1 April 2020 to be included in the program. For NARNiHS-specific questions please contact the program committee for the NARNiHS Research Incubator at: NARNiHistSoc at gmail.com. For general information about the overall conference please visit the KFLC website: https://kflc.as.uky.edu/. From george.walkden at gmail.com Mon Nov 11 16:43:37 2019 From: george.walkden at gmail.com (George Walkden) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 22:43:37 +0100 Subject: [Histling-l] Fwd: 30.4296, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Syntax/Germany References: Message-ID: <92A7494F-0E4A-49EE-94F8-6A4F3CD3BFD2@gmail.com> Dear HistLing list members, A reminder about the Diachronic Generative Syntax conference in Konstanz next year. Deadline for submissions is 22nd November. Best wishes, - George > Begin forwarded message: > > From: The LINGUIST List via LINGUIST > Subject: 30.4296, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Syntax/Germany > Date: 11 November 2019 at 21:28:06 CET > To: LINGUIST at listserv.linguistlist.org > Reply-To: linguist at listserv.linguistlist.org > > LINGUIST List: Vol-30-4296. Mon Nov 11 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875. > > Subject: 30.4296, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Syntax/Germany > > Moderator: Malgorzata E. Cavar (linguist at linguistlist.org) > Student Moderator: Jeremy Coburn > Managing Editor: Becca Morris > Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Everett Green, Sarah Robinson, Peace Han, Nils Hjortnaes, Yiwen Zhang, Julian Dietrich > Jobs: jobs at linguistlist.org | Conferences: callconf at linguistlist.org | Pubs: pubs at linguistlist.org > > Homepage: http://linguistlist.org > > Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at: > https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/ > > Editor for this issue: Everett Green > ================================================================ > > > Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 15:27:26 > From: George Walkden [george.walkden at uni-konstanz.de] > Subject: Diachronic Generative Syntax 22 > > > Full Title: Diachronic Generative Syntax 22 > Short Title: DiGS 22 > > Date: 13-May-2020 - 16-May-2020 > Location: Konstanz, Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany > Contact Person: George Walkden > Meeting Email: george.walkden at uni-konstanz.de > Web Site: http://walkden.space/digs2020/ > > Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Syntax > > Call Deadline: 22-Nov-2019 > > Meeting Description: > > The Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) conference is a forum for people to > present work on diachronic and historical syntax that is informed by, and > informs, generative syntactic theory. The invited speakers for the 22nd > instantiation of DiGS, in Konstanz, Germany, are Anne Breitbarth (Ghent), > Ashwini Deo (OSU), and Ian Roberts (Cambridge). There will also be a satellite > workshop on ''Syntactic change in progress''. > > > 2nd Call for Papers: > > We invite submissions for oral and poster presentations for the Diachronic > Generative Syntax Conference in Konstanz, Germany, May 2020. Submissions > should be in the area of historical and diachronic syntax, taking a generative > approach; ''generative'' is here understood broadly so as to include > frameworks such as LFG and HPSG as well as e.g. Minimalist, cartographic, > and/or nanosyntactic approaches. > > Abstracts should be no longer than two A4 pages (minimum font size: 12pt), > including examples and references. > > Please submit via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=digs22 > The deadline is 22 November 2019, 23:59 CET. > > Note that there will be a number of travel and accommodation bursaries > available to participants who need them. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *************************** LINGUIST List Support *************************** > The 2019 Fund Drive is under way! 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Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 03:25:10 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Final Call for Abstracts - 2020 NARNiHS Research Incubator In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: *Final* Call for Abstracts. Good news! Still 48 hours remaining to submit your abstract! Reminder ? Student stipends available (see below)! *** 2020 NARNiHS Research Incubator ***. The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics at: KFLC - The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference. ==> Abstract submission deadline: 25 November 2019, 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern Time). ==> Abstract submission portal: https://kflc.as.uky.edu/ . ==> Conference: 16-18 April 2020 ? University of Kentucky ? Lexington, Kentucky, USA. The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its 2020 NARNiHS Research Incubator. Building on the success of last year's inaugural event, this new kind of NARNiHS conference seeks to provide a collaborative environment where presenters bring work that is in-progress, exploratory, proof-of-concept, prototyping; and the audience actively participates in the brainstorming and workshopping of those new ideas. We see the NARNiHS Research Incubator as a place for testing/pushing boundaries; developing new theories, methods, models, tools; seeking feedback from peers willing to engage in productive assessment of fledgling ideas and nascent projects. Successful abstracts for this research incubator environment will demonstrate thorough grounding in the field, scientific rigor in the formulation of research questions, and promise for rich discussion. NARNiHS welcomes papers in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application/development of sociolinguistic theories, methods, and models for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, and methodologies easily find their place within the field, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. We are soliciting abstracts for 25-minute presentations. Abstracts should be no more than 500 words (not including examples and references). Abstracts will be accepted until 25 November 2019 - late abstracts will not be considered! Authors should be explicit about which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued; and data sources and examples should be sufficiently (if briefly) presented, so as to allow reviewers a full understanding of the scope and claims of the research. Please note that the connection of your research to the field of historical sociolinguistics should be explicitly outlined in your abstract. To encourage maximum exchange of ideas in the brainstorming/workshopping environment of the NARNiHS Research Incubator, presentations will be grouped into thematic panels of three presentations, each panel followed by an hour-long discussion with the audience led by specialists. Discussion will encompass specific feedback on the individual papers as well as consideration of overarching questions of theory, methods, and models emerging from the papers. To facilitate such discussion, authors will be required to submit a draft of their presentation materials for distribution to the panel discussants and to the other presenters 10 days prior to the start of the conference. Abstracts are submitted through the KFLC website (https://kflc.as.uky.edu/): 1) create an account and log in. 2) follow the menu path: Call for Papers > Submit an Abstract. 3) read carefully and follow the general KFLC abstract submission guidelines and instructions. 4) NARNiHS is only accepting individual submissions, so the KFLC instructions regarding pre-organized panels do not apply for the NARNiHS Research Incubator sessions. 5) select the "Linguistics" track and indicate clearly at the very top of your abstract: "NARNiHS Abstract". *** Note for students ***: We are able to offer a limited number of stipends to cover conference registration and partial travel costs for student papers accepted for presentation at the 2020 NARNiHS Research Incubator. The NARNiHS Research Incubator is hosted within the framework of the longstanding conference, KFLC: the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference at the University of Kentucky. The KFLC has a tradition of attracting scholars from a broad range of languages and specializations and is pleased to include historical sociolinguistics in its linguistics division. Acceptance of a paper implies a commitment on the part of all participants to register and attend the conference. All presenters must pay the appropriate registration fee by 1 April 2020 to be included in the program. For NARNiHS-specific questions please contact the program committee for the NARNiHS Research Incubator at: NARNiHistSoc at gmail.com. For general information about the overall conference please visit the KFLC website: https://kflc.as.uky.edu/ . From rik.vosters at gmail.com Wed Nov 27 12:19:09 2019 From: rik.vosters at gmail.com (Rik Vosters) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 18:19:09 +0100 Subject: [Histling-l] Historical Sociolinguistics Young Researchers Forum (HSYRF-2020) Message-ID: <0B90698E-1A94-41AB-90C9-21088FB17EEE@gmail.com> Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce the third edition of the Historical Sociolinguistics Young Researchers Forum (HSYRF-2020), which will take place at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) on 6-7 March 2020. This yearly event is aimed at early career researchers ? MA and PhD students, postdocs, and other young (at heart) researchers ?, offering a mix of lectures, master classes and hands-on workshops on various topics relevant to anyone interested in historical sociolinguistics or language history more generally. The 2020 edition features: - a masterclass on historical register variation by Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University) - a hands-on workshop on indexicality and enregisterment by by Joan Beal (University of Sheffield) - a hands-on workshop on analysing multilingual practices in historical corpora by Jukka Tyrkk? (Linn?us University) - the Bad Data Keynote Lecture on the challenge of ?bad data? by Marijke van der Wal (Leiden University) Where? VUB - Brussels When? 6-7 March 2020 For more info on the program and how to sign up, please visit: http://www.historicalsociolinguistics.be/hsyrf/ Organization: Rik Vosters (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Gijsbert Rutten (Universiteit Leiden) Eline Lismont (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Conference assistant: Fatima Ali (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) ? Fatima.Ali at vub.be Sponsors: Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) Doctoral School of Humanities (DSh) Center for Linguistics (CLIN) Vrije Universiteit Brussel Best wishes, Also on behalf of the other organizers, Gijsbert and Eline, Rik ? Prof. dr. Rik Vosters Center for Linguistics Vrije Universiteit Brussel Rik.Vosters at vub.be http://www.rikvosters.be/ ! nieuw: http://wikiscripta-neerlandica.eu/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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University of Bologna (Italy) --------- Organized by Alessandra Barotto, Nicola Grandi, Simone Mattiola, Caterina Mauri (University of Bologna) Invited speakers: Thomas Stolz (University of Bremen), Yvonne Treis (CNRS-LLACAN) TypoBO 2020 website: https://eventi.unibo.it/typobo-2020 --------- Call for Papers Comparative constructions are a set of grammatical strategies that the languages of the world use to compare two or more items in order to highlight both differences and similarities among them (cf. Dixon 2008, Stolz 2013, Treis 2018). We can recognize different types of comparative constructions depending on the kind of relationship existing between the two (or more) items (Fuchs 2014, Treis 2018). The first relevant distinction to be made is between quantitative comparison and qualitative comparison (cf. Treis 2018: iii): quantitative comparison can be further divided into comparison of inequality (superiority, e.g. taller than, tallest, or inferiority, e.g. less tall than, least tall) or equality (e.g. as tall as), while qualitative comparison can be further distinguished into similarity (e.g. like a horse) and simulation (e.g. as if he were a horse). The languages of the world exhibit several different formal strategies to express these functions, as argued in the typological literature (e.g. Ultan 1972, Andersen 1983, Stassen 1985, Cuzzolin & Lehmann 2004, Dixon 2008, Stolz 2013, Treis & Vanhove 2017, Treis 2018). However, we can generally identify some elements that are cross-linguistically recurrent within a comparative construction (cf. Stolz 2013: 9 and Treis 2018: ii). The comparee and the standard are the items being compared to each other, respectively, the primum comparationis (comparee) and the secundum comparationis (standard). The parameter or quality is the property on which comparee and standard are compared (tertium comparationis). The degree (or parameter) marker explicates the kind of relationship that comparee and standard have with respect to the parameter/quality (e.g. more, less, as ... as in English). Finally, the tie or standard marker is the grammatical function or relation that connects comparee, standard, and quality (e.g. than in English). Standard markers of comparison seem to develop out of a restricted set of recurrent sources (cf. Heine & Kuteva 2002), such as verbal forms meaning ?exceed/defeat/surpass? (Cantonese kwo ?surpass? > kwo ?than?) and interrogative adverbs (Hungarian mint ?how? > mint ?than?). Furthermore, comparative constructions themselves can constitute the source for different diachronic paths, leading to subjective functions such as evidentiality (e.g. in Even ureci-n ?like, apparently? cf. Malchukov 2000: 461) or more intersubjective functions applying at the discourse level, leading to elements such as discourse markers (e.g. English like) and topic markers (e.g. English as for). In addition, the discourse use of comparative constructions reveals that these strategies are frequently employed in a highly creative way, taking scope over phrases other than the prototypically gradable ones (e.g. superlatives on nouns and verbs). This workshop aims to gather scholars working on comparative constructions, both of the quantitative and qualitative types, integrating the typological perspective with complementary approaches and methodologies, including diachronic and sociolinguistic ones. To reach this aim, we invite submissions addressing one of the following topics: 1. (i) Cross-linguistic investigations of one or more comparative constructions using data from descriptive grammars and/or corpora; 2. (ii) Language-specific descriptions of one or more comparative constructions adopting a typological perspective, taking into consideration also discourse variation; 3. (iii) Diachronic analyses (typological and/or language specific) investigating the source of one or more comparative constructions; 4. (iv) Diachronic analyses (typological and/or language specific) investigating the development of one or more comparative strategies into new constructions (e.g. evidential markers, discourse markers, etc.). Selected papers of the workshop will be published in the newly founded, open-access journal Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads. Submission information Anonymous abstracts should be no longer than one-page A4 (margins of 2,5 cm on each side, single- spaced lines, Times New Roman font, 12 pt. font size), with the possibility of using an additional page for examples and references. Abstracts should be written in English, with fully glossed examples conforming to the Leipzig Glossing Rules. Submissions should be sent to typologyinbologna at gmail.com Deadline for submission: February 5, 2020. Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2020. Information and updates can be found on the TypoBO 2020 website: https://eventi.unibo.it/typobo-2020 References Andersen, Paul Kent. 1983. Word Order Typology and Comparative Constructions. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Cuzzolin, Pierluigi & Christian Lehmann. 2004. Comparison and gradation. In Geert Booij, Christian Lehmann, Joachim Mugdan & Stavros Skopeteas (eds.), Morphologie. Ein internationales Handbuch zur Flexion und Wortbildung, vol. 17.2, 1857?1882. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Dixon, R.M.W. 2008. Comparative constructions: A cross-linguistic typology. Studies in Language 32(4). 787?817. Fuchs, Catherine. 2014. La comparaison et son expression en franc?ais. Paris: Ophrys. Heine, Bernd & Tania Kuteva. 2002. World Lexicon of Grammaticalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Malchukov, Andrej L. 2000. Perfect, evidentiality and related categories in Tungusic languages. In Lars Johanson & Bo Utas (eds.), Evidentials: Turkic, Iranian and neighbouring languages, 441?469. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Stassen, Leon 1985. Comparison and Universal Grammar. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Stolz, Thomas 2013. Competing Comparative Constructions in Europe. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag. Treis, Yvonne & Martine Vanhove (eds). Similative and Equative Constructions. A cross-linguistic perspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Treis, Yvonne 2018. Comparative Constructions: An Introduction. Linguistic Discovery 16(1). i?xxvi. Ultan, Russell 1972. Some features of basic comparative constructions. Working Papers on Language Universals (Stanford) 9. 117?162. --- Prof.ssa Caterina Mauri Universit? di Bologna - Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture moderne Via Cartoleria 5, 40124 Bologna Homepage: https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/caterina.mauri -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The position is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), as part of the Collaborative Research Center ''Language-users? knowledge of of situational-functional variation.'' The PhD researcher will be appointed in the subproject ''Register emergence and register change in Germanic'' with Prof. Dr. Karin Donhauser, Prof. Dr. Muriel Norde and Dr. Lars-Erik Zeige as principal investigators. The main aim of this project is to study the emergence of registers in two early Germanic languages and to explore register change over time. The relation between register and language change is an understudied topic in historical linguistics, which so far has focused primarily on space and time as dimensions of variation. Nevertheless, there is evidence that specific authors vary in their use of lexical items, as well as in their use of morphological and syntactic patterns, according to situational-functional settings. There is furthermore evidence that medieval texts were linguistically adapted to different audiences. In both cases, the attested variation is, in part at least, register-specific. The focal languages of the project, German and Swedish, are comparatively well documented for the relevant time periods (ca. 750-1050 for German and ca. 1250-1450 for Swedish) and belong to the same language family. What is more, the development of more formal registers in both of these languages is strongly associated with literacy, Christianization, and the emerging functional bilingualism of Latin and the vernaculars. For our study of emergent registers, we initially concentrate on individual authors with a comparatively wide range of text production. We adopt this approach in order to avoid problems related to the unbalanced representation of different genres in the historical corpora of the Germanic languages. It furthermore enables us to filter out other variables, such as time and place. Adopting a bottom-up approach, we will identify lexical, morphological, and syntactic features with relatively high frequency in specific textual functions (e.g. narrative, revelatory, educational, scientific, or legal), drawing data from (annotated) corpora as a basis for quantitative analysis For the project on register emergence in Old Swedish we invite applications from candidates with a MA in Scandinavian Linguistics or in General Linguistics with a focus on North Germanic. In-depth knowledge of Scandinavian language history and at least one older Scandinavian language (preferably Old Swedish) is required, as well as experience in corpus linguistics and statistics. Basic reading knowledge of Latin is preferred, but may also be acquired as soon as possible after appointment. Closing date: December 27th, 2019 For further particulars and to apply for this post please contact Muriel Norde at muriel.norde at hu-berlin.de. -- Prof. dr. 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