[Histling-l] Final call: Fourth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology

[Jonathan Evans]

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/
>
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>
> 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.
>
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>
> 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
>
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>
> 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 Bermúdez-Otero (University of Manchester)
> David Bowie (University of Alaska — Anchorage)
> András Cser (Pázmány Péter Catholic University)
> B. Elan Dresher (University of Toronto)
> D. Eric Holt (University of South Carolina)
> José Ignacio Hualde (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
> Silke Hamann (University of Amsterdam)
> Larry Hyman (University of California Berkeley)
> Adèle Jatteau (CNRS — Université Paris VIII)
> James Kirby (University of Edinburgh)
> Björn Köhnlein (Ohio State University)
> Martin Kümmel (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.
>
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