From caterina.mauri at unibo.it Thu Jan 30 09:03:02 2020 From: caterina.mauri at unibo.it (Caterina Mauri) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:03:02 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] REMINDER - Call for Papers - Workshop TypoBO 2020 (Typology in Bologna) "Comparative constructions: linguistic typology at the crossroads" Message-ID: ******* Apologies for cross-posting ******* REMINDER TypoBo 2020 ? Typology in Bologna Comparative constructions: linguistic typology at the crossroads 25-26 May 2020 Alma Mater Studiorum ? 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. 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Support: PhD in Historical linguistics; Niger-Congo; Paris > (Idiatov Dmitry) > 2. CIPL Newsletters 1 & 2 (John Charles Smith) > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 02:25:42 +0300 > From: Idiatov Dmitry > To: histling-l at mailman.yale.edu > Subject: [Histling-l] Support: PhD in Historical linguistics; > Niger-Congo; Paris > Message-ID: > <3522191583105142 at sas2-2d551da8e887.qloud-c.yandex.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > > I would like to draw your attention to the possibility of a 3-year > PhD fellowship in Paris announced here: > > http://www.labex-efl.com/wordpress/2020/02/18/job-offer-3-year-docto > ral-project-at-labex-efl-paris-france/?lang=en > > and in particular to the historical linguistic PhD project: GL7 > ?Using regular homophonies for the delimitation, internal > classification and reconstruction of Niger-Congo? : > > http://www.labex-efl.com/wordpress/2020/02/18/using-regular-homophon > ies-for-the-delimitation-internal-classification-and-reconstruction- > of-niger-congo-gl7/?lang=en > > > Please forward this information to any potential PhD candidates. > > -- > Dmitry Idiatov > > LLACAN-CNRS > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 08:23:58 +0000 > From: John Charles Smith > To: "histling-l at mailman.yale.edu" > Subject: [Histling-l] CIPL Newsletters 1 & 2 > Message-ID: > OUTLOOK.COM> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > Dear Colleagues, > > > > As many of you know, the International Society for Historical > Linguistics is affiliated to the Comit? international permanent des > linguistes (CIPL). CIPL has recently begun to publish a Newsletter > (in English), and has asked ISHL to circulate this to its members. > A Business Meeting of ISHL agreed to this request, and proposed that > circulation should take place via the HistLing list, provided the > list owner and CIPL had no objections. Having obtained the approval > of both parties, I am now attaching the first two issues of the > Newsletter. > > > > I realize that some members of the HistLing list are not members of > ISHL, and I ask for their forbearance. I hope everyone will find > the Newsletter of interest. > > > > Whilst I?m writing, let me also hope that all members of ISHL and > HistLing are in good health and surviving these troubled times. > > > > With best 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: > 3b0aeb2/attachment.html> > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: CIPL Newsletter 1.pdf > Type: application/pdf > Size: 135460 bytes > Desc: CIPL Newsletter 1.pdf > URL: > 3b0aeb2/attachment.pdf> > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: CIPL Newsletter 2.pdf > Type: application/pdf > Size: 128251 bytes > Desc: CIPL Newsletter 2.pdf > URL: > 3b0aeb2/attachment-0001.pdf> > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > histling-l mailing list > histling-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l > > > ------------------------------ > > End of histling-l Digest, Vol 56, Issue 1 > ***************************************** -- <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> 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 https://www.projects.alc.manchester.ac.uk/maryhamiltonpapers/ From mithun at linguistics.ucsb.edu Wed Apr 15 11:51:32 2020 From: mithun at linguistics.ucsb.edu (Marianne Mithun) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 08:51:32 -0700 Subject: [Histling-l] histling-l Digest, Vol 56, Issue 1 In-Reply-To: <5E96CEEC.198.AE76E7@david.denison.manchester.ac.uk> References: <5E96CEEC.198.AE76E7@david.denison.manchester.ac.uk> Message-ID: Actually I had no trouble seeing the attachments. Marianne Mithun On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 2:08 AM David Denison < david.denison at manchester.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi JC, > > I don't think this rather primitive list allows attachments -- or indeed > Unicode characters. > > best > David > > > On 15 Apr 2020 at 4:24, histling-l-request at mailman.yale.edu wrote: > > > Send histling-l mailing list submissions to > > histling-l at mailman.yale.edu > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > histling-l-request at mailman.yale.edu > > > > You can reach the person managing the list at > > histling-l-owner at mailman.yale.edu > > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more > > specific > > than "Re: Contents of histling-l digest..." > > > > > > Today's Topics: > > > > 1. Support: PhD in Historical linguistics; Niger-Congo; Paris > > (Idiatov Dmitry) > > 2. CIPL Newsletters 1 & 2 (John Charles Smith) > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 02:25:42 +0300 > > From: Idiatov Dmitry > > To: histling-l at mailman.yale.edu > > Subject: [Histling-l] Support: PhD in Historical linguistics; > > Niger-Congo; Paris > > Message-ID: > > <3522191583105142 at sas2-2d551da8e887.qloud-c.yandex.net> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > > > > > I would like to draw your attention to the possibility of a 3-year > > PhD fellowship in Paris announced here: > > > > http://www.labex-efl.com/wordpress/2020/02/18/job-offer-3-year-docto > > ral-project-at-labex-efl-paris-france/?lang=en > > > > and in particular to the historical linguistic PhD project: GL7 > > ?Using regular homophonies for the delimitation, internal > > classification and reconstruction of Niger-Congo? : > > > > http://www.labex-efl.com/wordpress/2020/02/18/using-regular-homophon > > ies-for-the-delimitation-internal-classification-and-reconstruction- > > of-niger-congo-gl7/?lang=en > > > > > > Please forward this information to any potential PhD candidates. > > > > -- > > Dmitry Idiatov > > > > LLACAN-CNRS > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 2 > > Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 08:23:58 +0000 > > From: John Charles Smith > > To: "histling-l at mailman.yale.edu" > > Subject: [Histling-l] CIPL Newsletters 1 & 2 > > Message-ID: > > > OUTLOOK.COM> > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > > > Dear Colleagues, > > > > > > > > As many of you know, the International Society for Historical > > Linguistics is affiliated to the Comit? international permanent des > > linguistes (CIPL). CIPL has recently begun to publish a Newsletter > > (in English), and has asked ISHL to circulate this to its members. > > A Business Meeting of ISHL agreed to this request, and proposed that > > circulation should take place via the HistLing list, provided the > > list owner and CIPL had no objections. Having obtained the approval > > of both parties, I am now attaching the first two issues of the > > Newsletter. > > > > > > > > I realize that some members of the HistLing list are not members of > > ISHL, and I ask for their forbearance. I hope everyone will find > > the Newsletter of interest. > > > > > > > > Whilst I?m writing, let me also hope that all members of ISHL and > > HistLing are in good health and surviving these troubled times. > > > > > > > > With best 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: > > > 3b0aeb2/attachment.html> > > -------------- next part -------------- > > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > > Name: CIPL Newsletter 1.pdf > > Type: application/pdf > > Size: 135460 bytes > > Desc: CIPL Newsletter 1.pdf > > URL: > > > 3b0aeb2/attachment.pdf> > > -------------- next part -------------- > > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > > Name: CIPL Newsletter 2.pdf > > Type: application/pdf > > Size: 128251 bytes > > Desc: CIPL Newsletter 2.pdf > > URL: > > > 3b0aeb2/attachment-0001.pdf> > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Subject: Digest Footer > > > > _______________________________________________ > > histling-l mailing list > > histling-l at mailman.yale.edu > > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > End of histling-l Digest, Vol 56, Issue 1 > > ***************************************** > > -- <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > 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 > https://www.projects.alc.manchester.ac.uk/maryhamiltonpapers/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Claire On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 11:51 AM Marianne Mithun < mithun at linguistics.ucsb.edu> wrote: > Actually I had no trouble seeing the attachments. > > Marianne Mithun > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 2:08 AM David Denison < > david.denison at manchester.ac.uk> wrote: > >> Hi JC, >> >> I don't think this rather primitive list allows attachments -- or indeed >> Unicode characters. >> >> best >> David >> >> >> On 15 Apr 2020 at 4:24, histling-l-request at mailman.yale.edu wrote: >> >> > Send histling-l mailing list submissions to >> > histling-l at mailman.yale.edu >> > >> > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l >> > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> > histling-l-request at mailman.yale.edu >> > >> > You can reach the person managing the list at >> > histling-l-owner at mailman.yale.edu >> > >> > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more >> > specific >> > than "Re: Contents of histling-l digest..." >> > >> > >> > Today's Topics: >> > >> > 1. Support: PhD in Historical linguistics; Niger-Congo; Paris >> > (Idiatov Dmitry) >> > 2. CIPL Newsletters 1 & 2 (John Charles Smith) >> > >> > >> > -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > -- >> > >> > Message: 1 >> > Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 02:25:42 +0300 >> > From: Idiatov Dmitry >> > To: histling-l at mailman.yale.edu >> > Subject: [Histling-l] Support: PhD in Historical linguistics; >> > Niger-Congo; Paris >> > Message-ID: >> > <3522191583105142 at sas2-2d551da8e887.qloud-c.yandex.net> >> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 >> > >> > >> > I would like to draw your attention to the possibility of a 3-year >> > PhD fellowship in Paris announced here: >> > >> > http://www.labex-efl.com/wordpress/2020/02/18/job-offer-3-year-docto >> > ral-project-at-labex-efl-paris-france/?lang=en >> > >> > and in particular to the historical linguistic PhD project: GL7 >> > ?Using regular homophonies for the delimitation, internal >> > classification and reconstruction of Niger-Congo? : >> > >> > http://www.labex-efl.com/wordpress/2020/02/18/using-regular-homophon >> > ies-for-the-delimitation-internal-classification-and-reconstruction- >> > of-niger-congo-gl7/?lang=en >> > >> > >> > Please forward this information to any potential PhD candidates. >> > >> > -- >> > Dmitry Idiatov >> > >> > LLACAN-CNRS >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------ >> > >> > Message: 2 >> > Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 08:23:58 +0000 >> > From: John Charles Smith >> > To: "histling-l at mailman.yale.edu" >> > Subject: [Histling-l] CIPL Newsletters 1 & 2 >> > Message-ID: >> > >> > > OUTLOOK.COM> >> > >> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" >> > >> > Dear Colleagues, >> > >> > >> > >> > As many of you know, the International Society for Historical >> > Linguistics is affiliated to the Comit? international permanent des >> > linguistes (CIPL). CIPL has recently begun to publish a Newsletter >> > (in English), and has asked ISHL to circulate this to its members. >> > A Business Meeting of ISHL agreed to this request, and proposed that >> > circulation should take place via the HistLing list, provided the >> > list owner and CIPL had no objections. Having obtained the approval >> > of both parties, I am now attaching the first two issues of the >> > Newsletter. >> > >> > >> > >> > I realize that some members of the HistLing list are not members of >> > ISHL, and I ask for their forbearance. 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As noted in the position description, strong candidates will demonstrate the ability to develop an independent, 4-year research program that spans the disciplines represented in the Center. A position description can be found at the Center's website(http://www.wordsandbones.uni-tuebingen.de/?p=3543), as well as at the University of T?bingen website (https://uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/stellenangebote/newsfullview-stellenangebote/article/junior-research-group-leader-mfd-tv-l-e13-100/ ). Kind regards, Marisa K?llner -- Marisa K?llner geb. Delz Wilhelmstra?e 19, Zi.: 1.11 Seminar f?r Sprachwissenschaft Projekt WBGT Universit?t T?bingen 72074 T?bingen Telefon: 07071/2975665 Email: marisa.koellner at uni-tuebingen.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerhard.jaeger at uni-tuebingen.de Fri Jul 10 05:53:58 2020 From: gerhard.jaeger at uni-tuebingen.de (=?UTF-8?Q?Gerhard_J=c3=a4ger?=) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 11:53:58 +0200 Subject: [Histling-l] CfP: Workshop *Model and Evidence in Quantitative Comparative Linguistics*, Freiburg, Germany Message-ID: <6b68dcb4-bbf2-3693-6d9c-ca7bcfbeda1c@uni-tuebingen.de> Model and evidence in quantitative comparative linguistics * Date: February 24-26, 2021 * Location: Freiburg, Germany (short workshop at the 43rd Annual Conference of the DGfS) * Contact persons: Gerhard J?ger (gerhard.jaeger at uni-tuebingen.de ) and Johann-Mattis List (list at shh.mpg.de ) * Web Site: www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~gjaeger/maeiqcl21/ Workshop organizers * Gerhard J?ger (T?bingen) * Johann-Mattis List (Jena) Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2020 Meeting description The emergence of data science has inspired a surge in interest in the application of quantitative and computational methods in comparative linguistics in the broad sense. By this we mean any kind of research studying features of several natural languages in parallel. High profile results touch upon three major topics: * the study of deep history, both regarding reconstruction of past language stages and language change processes and of population history in general, * statistical investigations of typological questions regarding, e.g., the (non-)universality of feature correlations, * probing for - possibly causal - connections between linguistic properties and extra-linguistic variables such as language community size, climate, or diet. These results are often met with a healthy skepticism within the linguistic community. It is tempting to discount the criticisms leveled against quantitative comparative linguistics ? such as the insistence by practitioners of classical historical linguistics that historical linguistics must be based on the identification of sound laws ? as inevitable side effects of a paradigm shift. However, computational and statistically minded comparativists do not agree among themselves regarding the standards of /data quality/, /model validation/, and /model comparison/. For instance, the debate in a recent issue of /Theoretical Linguistics/revealed that there is no consensus about some very profound issues pertaining the the nature and purpose of statistical models in computational historical linguistics. The open peer reviews on Dunn et al. (2011, /Nature/) in /Linguistic Typology 15(2), 2011/revealed a similar demand for debate in typology which has not been conclusively settled so far. The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for this /methodological discussion/. It will focus on: * approaches to /model validation/and /model comparison/in statistical work on comparative linguistics, * /standards/for data formats, /data accessibility/, and /data sharing/, and * /best practices/for code sharing and code accessibility within an open science framework. Please note also: A limited number of travel grants will be available upon request. We invite submissions for 20-minute oral presentations (+ 10 minutes discussion) in English. We are equally interested in contributions relating to data management and to data modeling. Abstracts should be anonymously submitted to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=maeiqcl21. Abstracts should be at most one page long, plus references on the second page, on A4 paper with 2.5cm margins on all sides, and must be set in Times New Roman font of at least 11 points. The deadline for submission is 31 August 2020; notification date is 15 September 2020. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We have therefore agreed that the new dates for the Conference will be Monday, 1 August 2022 to Friday, 5 August 2022 (with optional excursions on Saturday, 6 August). As you know, it is the Society?s normal practice to consult its members before making significant changes to the way it operates. However, this is a ?one-off? case of force majeure, and the Oxford organizers needed a more or less immediate response from the Society?s committees, so that they could rebook the conference venues. I apologize to anyone who may be inconvenienced by this change, and ask for your understanding. I hope that all members of ISHL and the HistLing list are safe and well in these difficult times. With all good wishes, John Charles Smith Secretary, ISHL ? 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The full draft programme is attached to this email. *Sino-Tibetan Languages: Research Methodologies and Approaches to Linguistic Field Studies and Language Documentation among Tibeto-Burman Speaking Minorities in China* October 26 ? 30, 2020 Ghent University very best, Nathan -- Dr Nathan W. Hill Reader in Tibetan and Historical Linguistics Research Coordinator, East Asian Languages and Cultures UK Director, London Confucius Institute SOAS, University of London Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, UK Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4512 Room 456 -- Profile -- http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff46254.php Tibetan Studies at SOAS -- http://www.soas.ac.uk/cia/tibetanstudies/ -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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In total, the group will consist of four postdoctoral researchers, four PhD students, and several student assistants. The principal activity of the postdoctoral researcher will be to undertake research in one of the work packages described mentioned at the project homepage (https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/163612). A solid background, including a PhD in a relevant discipline, in at least one of the following areas is required: * statistical modeling, especially Bayesian approaches * historical-comparative linguistics and typology Experience in both areas would be ideal; otherwise the successful applicant is expected to actively engage in the collaborative efforts of the project and to acquire the necessary skills. The Linguistics Department (http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/) and the Center for Advanced Studies "Words, Bones, Genes, Tools" (http://www.wordsandbones.uni-tuebingen.de/) offer a stimulating interdisciplinary research environment. The salary is figured according to the union contract named TV-L, E13, depending on professional experience. The period of employment will be for 4 years. Applications should include CV, an outline of research experience, as well as names and addresses of up to three references. Applications should be sent by email to the address below. The position will be filled as soon as possible. Deadline for applications is September 30, 2020. Disabled applicants will be preferred if they have the same qualifications as non-disabled applicants. The University of T?bingen strives to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching, and therefore encourages qualified female scientists to apply. Please send your application electronically as a single pdf file to gerhard.jaeger at uni-tuebingen.de . The contract will be made by the central administration of the university. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The principal activity of the researcher will be to pursue a PhD research project in one or two of the work packages mentioned on the project homepage (https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/163612). A solid background, including a Master's degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline, in one of the two research areas is required: * statistical modeling, especially Bayesian approaches * historical-comparative linguistics and typology Expertise in both areas would be ideal; otherwise the successful applicant is expected to actively engage in the collaborative efforts of the project and to acquire the necessary skills. The Linguistics Department (http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/) and the Center for Advanced Studies "Words, Bones, Genes, Tools" (http://www.wordsandbones.uni-tuebingen.de/) offer a stimulating interdisciplinary research environment with the opportunity of completing a PhD degree. The period of employment will be for 4 years. Applications should include CV, an outline of research experience, as well as names and addresses of up to three references. Applications should be sent by email to the address below. The position will be filled as soon as possible. Deadline for applications is September 30, 2020. Disabled applicants will be preferred if they have the same qualifications as non-disabled applicants. The University of T?bingen strives to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching, and therefore encourages qualified female scientists to apply. Please send your application electronically as a single pdf file to gerhard.jaeger at uni-tuebingen.de . The contract will be made by the central administration of the university. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From claire.bowern at yale.edu Mon Aug 24 12:00:52 2020 From: claire.bowern at yale.edu (Claire Bowern) Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 12:00:52 -0400 Subject: [Histling-l] Studies in Language Change Message-ID: [posted on behalf of the series editors] As editors of De Gruyter Mouton?s monograph series *Studies in Language Change* we would like to invite historical linguists to submit book-length studies (e.g. dissertations) to the series. See https://www.degruyter.com/view/serial/SLC-B for a brief description of the series, plus (under Contents) the titles that have been published since the series was taken over by DGM from Pacific Linguistics Canberra. The scope of interest of the series includes: ? empirically based studies ? any of the world?s languages, language families, and linguistic areas ? descriptions of changes in a specific language ? reconstruction of earlier stages of a language or language family ? establishing genealogical relations between languages ? descriptions of contact-induced change ? synchronic descriptions of earlier stages of a language ? issues of historical linguistics methodology ? theoretical explanations Expressions of interest and book proposals should be sent in the first instance to Birgit.Sievert at degruyter.com. Harold Koch, Cynthia Allen, Malcolm Ross and Don Daniels -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lauersdorf at uky.edu Thu Aug 27 11:28:04 2020 From: lauersdorf at uky.edu (Lauersdorf, Mark R.) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 15:28:04 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Call for Abstracts - North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) - Third Annual Meeting Message-ID: *** Call for Abstracts *** North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) *** Third Annual Meeting In light of the current global health emergency, our 2021 Annual Meeting will be taking place as an *online event*. This presents a great opportunity for scholars in historical sociolinguistics from all over the world to participate as presenters and/or attendees without the limitations imposed by international travel, and we encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists, and scholars from related fields, from Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and Central and South America (in addition to North America) to join us for our Third Annual Meeting. Abstract submission deadline: ==> Wednesday, 30 September 2020, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time <==. Please see our 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 Third Annual Meeting, Friday, January 8 - Tuesday, January 12, 2021. As NARNiHS is a Sister Society of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), this meeting will partially overlap with the 2021 LSA Annual Meeting. Deadline for receipt of abstracts: ==> Wednesday, 30 September 2020, 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 20-minute presentations to be delivered "live" through an online video-conferencing platform. Abstracts should clearly articulate how the research in the presentation advances knowledge in the field of historical sociolinguistics. Authors should also 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 in the abstract 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/narnihs2021 . 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) 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. 5) Papers must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. 6) Authors are expected to attend the conference and present their own papers. 7) Presentations will be delivered via a video-conferencing platform, most likely Zoom. Technical details and instructions regarding the platform for our NARNiHS Annual Meeting will be sent to authors in due time. 8) After acceptance, authors will be given an option to have their live presentation recorded during the meeting and archived for future online viewing. Abstract Format Guidelines: 1) Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. 2) Abstracts must fit on one standard 8.5?11 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 (one) 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_Abstract2021.pdf) when saving your abstract in PDF format, but rather, use non-identifying information (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe_NARNiHS2021.pdf). Contact us at NARNiHistSoc at gmail.com with any questions. http://narnihs.org/ From lauersdorf at uky.edu Wed Sep 16 12:26:47 2020 From: lauersdorf at uky.edu (Lauersdorf, Mark R.) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 16:26:47 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] 2nd Call - North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) - Third Annual Meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *** 2nd Call for Abstracts -- Still two weeks to submit! *** North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) Third Annual Meeting In light of the current global health emergency, our 2021 Annual Meeting will be taking place as an *online event*. This presents a great opportunity for scholars in historical sociolinguistics from all over the world to participate as presenters and/or attendees without the limitations imposed by international travel, and we encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists, and scholars from related fields, from Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and Central and South America (in addition to North America) to join us for our Third Annual Meeting. Abstract submission deadline: ==> Wednesday, 30 September 2020, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time <==. Please see our 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 Third Annual Meeting, Friday, January 8 - Tuesday, January 12, 2021. As NARNiHS is a Sister Society of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), this meeting will partially overlap with the 2021 LSA Annual Meeting. Deadline for receipt of abstracts: ==> Wednesday, 30 September 2020, 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 20-minute presentations to be delivered "live" through an online video-conferencing platform. Abstracts should clearly articulate how the research in the presentation advances knowledge in the field of historical sociolinguistics. Authors should also 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 in the abstract 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/narnihs2021 . 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) 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. 5) Papers must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. 6) Authors are expected to attend the conference and present their own papers. 7) Presentations will be delivered via a video-conferencing platform, most likely Zoom. Technical details and instructions regarding the platform for our NARNiHS Annual Meeting will be sent to authors in due time. 8) After acceptance, authors will be given an option to have their live presentation recorded during the meeting and archived for future online viewing. Abstract Format Guidelines: 1) Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. 2) Abstracts must fit on one standard 8.5?11 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 (one) 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_Abstract2021.pdf) when saving your abstract in PDF format, but rather, use non-identifying information (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe_NARNiHS2021.pdf). Contact us at NARNiHistSoc at gmail.com with any questions. http://narnihs.org/ From lass at iafrica.com Sat Oct 10 06:07:50 2020 From: lass at iafrica.com (Roger Lass) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 12:07:50 +0200 Subject: [Histling-l] getting back on the list Message-ID: <000201d69eed$382adfe0$a8809fa0$@iafrica.com> Dear Histling, I used to be a regular member of Histling, but several years ago my membership lapsed for some reason, and no matter what instructions I followed I could never get back on. This list is important to me, and is central to my academic work. Is there any way that you could get me back on the list, or tell me what to do? I've been missing a huge amount of material that really interests me, as well as not being able to make my own contributions to ongoing discussions. I would be really grateful if I could get back on the list. Thank you. 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The 2021 NARNiHS Research Incubator will take place as an entirely online event. ?This presents a great opportunity for scholars in historical sociolinguistics from all over the world to participate as presenters and/or attendees without the limitations imposed by international travel, and we encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists, and scholars from related fields, from Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and Central and South America (in addition to North America) to join us for our Research Incubator this spring. ==> Abstract submission deadline: 15 November 2020, 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern Time). ==> Abstract submission portal: https://kflc.as.uky.edu/ . The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its *2021 NARNiHS Research Incubator*. Building on the great success of the first two years, 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 of ideas. 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 15 November 2020 - 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 for *student* papers accepted for presentation at the 2021 NARNiHS Research Incubator. ?Information about applying for the stipend will be sent after acceptance of abstracts. 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 01 March 2021 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 ikersalaberri at gmail.com Mon Oct 12 04:34:36 2020 From: ikersalaberri at gmail.com (Iker Salaberri) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 10:34:36 +0200 Subject: [Histling-l] SLE2021 Workshop "Investigating language isolates: typological and diachronic perspectives" Message-ID: (Apologies for cross-posting) CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea 31 August ? 3 September 2021 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece) *Workshop "Investigating language isolates: typological and diachronic perspectives"* *Convenors:* Iker Salaberri, Dorota Krajewska, Urtzi Reguero and Eneko Zuloaga (University of the Basque Country) With the collaboration of Maitena Duhalde (Universit? Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3), Borja Ariztimu?o, Oxel Uribe-Etxebarria, Sergio Monforte, Koldo Ulibarri (University of the Basque Country) and Ekaitz Santazilia (Public University of Navarre) *Description:* Keywords: language isolates; typology; language history; comparative linguistics; language documentation and filiation Recent years have witnessed advances in the study of language isolates (LIs) (Campbell (ed.) 2017). However, and despite the fact that lis represent nearly 40% of the world?s language families (Campbell 2017a: xi), they are still underrepresented in part of typological and comparative literature: see, for example, the objections by Miestamo et al. (2016) concerning sampling procedures in Voegelin & Voegelin (1977) and Bybee et al. (1994). In addition, little is known about the histories of most of these languages (Hombert & Philippson 2009). This state of affairs is due to many reasons: in line with current world-wide tendencies, many lis are becoming extinct even before they get the chance to be documented (Harrison 2007), and the lack of comprehensive information hinders a correct genetic affiliation of these languages, which often precludes their being treated as isolates (Blench 2017: 162). The lack of research on LIs from specific perspectives, for instance diachronic-historical linguistics, is also influenced by preconceived ideas including the view that isolates do not have a history: Meillet (1925: 11-12), for example, claims that ?if a language is isolate, it is deprived of history?. As a result of this data situation, it is unclear whether LIs are, from a typological and diachronic perspective, similar or different in comparison to non-isolates: whereas some authors contend that ?language isolates are not very different from language families composed of multiple members? (Campbell 2017b: 1), other recent studies point in the opposite direction. The latter signal an overrepresentation ?or at least presence? of typologically unusual features in isolates, such as the contrast between plain and post-aspirate nasals in Nasa Yuwe (Jung 2000: 141-142), verbal allocutivity in Basque, Nambikwara and Pum? (Antonov 2015: 80-81), the lack of an unambiguous standard negative system in Kusunda (Donohue et al. 2014) and a twenty-four-way system of numeral series according to the type of counted objects in Nivkh (Georg 2017: 148-149). Far less is known regarding the diachronic facet of LIs, despite the fact that a few languages such as Basque, Elamite, Mapudungun and Sumerian, among others, have sufficient textual evidence stretching over relatively long periods of time so as to allow for comprehensive historical and philological research (Hayes 1990, Kha?ikjan 1998, Z??iga 2006, Campbell 2011, Ulibarri 2013). This workshop is meant to delve deeper into the questions concerning the typological features and histories of LIs from different theoretical perspectives. It is also interested in exploring and discussing recent findings with respect to the documentation and filiation of endangered and poorly described LIs. We welcome contributions that address, among others, the following topics: - what similarities and differences are there concerning the typological features of language isolates vs. non-isolates? - how can we advance our knowledge of the history of language isolates? - what similarities and differences are there concerning the historical changes of language isolates vs. non-isolates? - how does linguistic contact affect language isolates? - how much documentation, and of what kind, is necessary to determine the isolate status of languages? Contributions that address these questions could be oriented in the following manner: - comparative typological and/or historical studies on isolates and non- isolates; - corpus studies on the historical development of language isolates; - studies which attempt internal reconstruction of language isolates; - studies on the documentation of little-described or previously undescribed language isolates; - studies that discuss attempts to establish the genetic filiation of language isolates and/or unclassified languages. We *welcome abstracts of no more than 300 words* (including references) in .odt, .docx or .pdf format. Please send abstracts to: ikersalaberri at gmail.com The *deadline for submission* of the short abstract is November 1st, 2020. If the workshop proposal is accepted, you will be asked to submit a long abstract (500 words) for review by the SLE. The deadline for submission of long abstracts is January 15th, 2021. References Antonov, Anton. 2015. Verbal allocutivity in a crosslinguistic perspective. Linguistic Typology 19(1). 55-85. Blench, Roger. 2017. African language isolates. In Lyle Campbell (ed.), Language isolates, 162-192. London/New York: Routledge. Bybee, Joan, Revere Perkins & William Pagliuca. 1994. The evolution of grammar: Tense, aspect and modality in the languages of the world. Chicago: Chicago University Press. Campbell, Lyle R. 2011. La investigaci?n hist?rica de las lenguas aisladas, o ?es raro el vasco? In Joseba A. Lakarra, Joaqu?n Gorrochategui & Blanca Urgell (eds.), 2nd Conference of the Luis Michelena Chair, 23-40. Vitoria-Gasteiz: University of the Basque Country Editorial Service. Campbell, Lyle R. (ed.). 2017. Language isolates. London/New York: Routledge. Campbell, Lyle R. 2017a. Introduction. In Lyle Campbell (ed.), Language isolates, xi-xiv. London/New York: Routledge. Campbell, Lyle R. 2017b. Language isolates and their history. In Lyle Campbell (ed.), Language isolates, 1-18. London/New York: Routledge. Donohue, Mark, Bhojraj Gautam & Madhav Pokharel. 2014. Negation and nominalization in Kusunda. Language 90(3). 737-745. Georg, Stefan. 2017. Other isolated languages of Asia. In Lyle Campbell (ed.), Language isolates, 139-161. London/New York: Routledge. Harrison, K. David. 2007. When languages die: The extinction of the world?s languages and the erosion of human knowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Hayes, John L. 1990. A manual of Sumerian grammar and texts (2nd edition). Malibu: Undena Publications. Hombert, Jean-Marie & G?rard Philippson. 2009. The linguistic importance of language isolates: The African case. In Peter K. Austin, Oliver Bond, Monik Charette, David Nathan & Peter Sells (eds.), Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 2. London: School of Oriental and African Studies. Jung, Ingrid. 2000. El p?ez: Breve descripci?n. In Mar?a S. Gonz?lez de P?rez & Mar?a L. Rodr?guez de Montes (eds.), Lenguas ind?genas de Colombia: Una visi?n descriptiva, 139-154. Santaf? de Bogot?: Instituto Caro y Cuervo. Kha?ikjan, Margaret. 1998. The Elamite language. Rome: Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche. Meillet, Andr?. 1925. La m?thode comparative en linguistique historique. Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard) Miestamo, Matti, Dik Bakker & Antti Arppe. 2016. Sampling for variety. Linguistic Typology 20(2). 233-296. Ulibarri, Koldo. 2013. External history: Sources for historical research. In Mikel Mart?nez-Areta (ed.), Basque and Proto-Basque: Language-internal and typological approaches to linguistic reconstruction, 89-117. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. Voegelin, Charles F. & Florence M. Voegelin. 1977. Classification and index of the world?s languages. New York: Elsevier. Z??iga, Fernando. 2006. Mapudungun: El habla mapuche. Santiago de Chile: Centro de Estudios P?blicos. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For more information on techn? and the kinds of projects it funds, please see: http://www.techne.ac.uk/ As well as financial support, techn? offers a developmental framework for doctoral researchers across the collaborating institutions, with research training, supportive community networks, professional and public engagement opportunities and a space for both independent and collaborative scholarship. techn? is now welcoming applications for fully-funded studentships across the arts and humanities beginning in autumn 2021. At Westminster we are offering techn? studentships in the following areas: * Sociolinguistics of multilingualism * Sociolinguistics of migration and mobility * Language variation and change * Language and gender * Language contact, including the study of codeswitching and creole languages * History of English These areas can be combined with the study of the following languages and cultures (Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish), although studies in other languages/cultures are equally welcome. Studentships include maintenance and fees for 3.5 years for a full time student; or 7 years for a part-time student at 50% of the full-time studentship level each year (pro rata if you have already started your PhD). Studentships are open to students who have already started their doctoral study but they must have at least 50% of the funded period of an AHRC award (usually 18 months full time) remaining at the time they start their scholarship. International students are eligible to apply for studentships but will be expected to pay the difference between the home and international fee rate themselves (as the studentship will only cover fees at the home rate, plus the stipend).** Students must comply with the AHRC eligibility criteria and other terms and conditions available on the AHRC?s webpage here: https://ahrc.ukri.org/skills/phdstudents/award-holders-terms-and-conditions/ If you are interested in applying for a place at the University of Westminster supported by a techn? studentship, we strongly recommend you first contact a member of the academic staff in the relevant area and talk to them about your proposal. The contact person for the School of Humanities is Dr Helen Glew H.Glew at westminster.ac.uk Entry criteria are normally at least a 2:1 in a relevant first degree and a masters degree. Applications should include a research proposal and all necessary additional documents. If you would like to be considered for a techn? studentship at the University of Westminster you need to apply to the university using the links below. The relevant doctoral programmes that are eligible for techn? studentships are: MPhil/PhD Linguistics MPhil/PhD Modern and Applied Languages MPhil/PhD English Language You must apply for one of these programmes in order to be eligible for a techn? studentship. If you apply for programmes in other areas your application will not be eligible. Please make sure you indicate on your application form that you wish to be considered for a techn? studentship. The deadline for applications is 5pm (GMT) on Tuesday 1st December 2020. Interviews will be held week commencing 18th January 2021. If the university decides to nominate your application to techn?, it will then be put forward by the university to the techn? review panel. The final decision on the allocation of studentships rests with the techn? review panel. 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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 ________________________________ Third Newsletter CIPL, October 2020 View this email in your browser NEWSLETTER CIPL - Nr. 3: October 2020 [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/04cc26c632bca3a004f25eb94/images/8904b2c5-be4d-49bd-a695-c59dc5ccee3d.png] The 21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL21) The upcoming International Congress of Linguists, ICL21, will take place in Kazan (Tatarstan, Russia) from 25 June to 2 July 2023. ICL21 will be jointly organised by Kazan Federal University and the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Read the complete announcement. Travel grants winners and new application round CIPL awarded three travel grants for young PhD students in the spring/summer 2020. The grants have been awarded to: Melissa Irvine from New Zealand, Victoria Leonetti Escandel from Spain and Teja Rebernik from the Netherlands. Read more. A new application round has been opened from October 1st until November 15th 2020: http://www.ciplnet.com/travelgrants/ A virtual festival celebrating the Caribbean languages Melissa Irvine received a CIPL Travel Grant earlier this year in order to attend the 23rd Biennial Society for Caribbean Linguistics conference that was to be held in Trinidad & Tobago. To make such a long trip (coming from New Zealand) even more worthwhile, she also planned to spend some time in St. Lucia where she did the majority of the fieldwork for her PhD so that she could continue some work there. Read her report here. Exceptions rule! Lexical restrictions on grammatical structure A new research project at the University of Amsterdam, called "Exceptions rule! Lexical restrictions on grammatical structure", tries to bring the fields of language typology and psycholinguistics closer together, with a focus on alternating verb-argument constructions. You can read all about this here. CIPSH Chair: Ethnolinguistic vitality and diversity in the world The CIPSH Chair hosted by the University of Leiden with dr. Felix K. Ameka as project leader of this Chair, had to postpone their planned activities due to the corona crisis. Read here about these activities. Interview Prof Tjeerd de Graaf Associate Secretary-General of CIPL prof Camiel Hamans interviewed Prof Tjeerd de Graaf, a physicist who became a language rediscoverer. Read the interview here. Introducing CLUL and SCL In every newsletter one or two members of CIPL will introduce themselves. In previous newsletters you could learn more about Abralin, HiSoN and SHESL. In this third newsletter our new members the CLUL (Centro de Lingu?stica da Universidade de Lisboa) and SCL (Society for Caribbean Linguistics) introduce themselves. SLE 2020 Platform The Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) organized a virtual conference on the SLE 2020 Platform. The meeting hosted 11 workshops as well as general session and poster session presentations. The SLE 2020 Platform was successful in bringing scholars together and promoting linguistic research. You can read the full report written by Olga Spevak and Bert Cornillie here. Abralin ao Vivo ? Linguists Online Abralin ao Vivo was organized in response to the pandemic caused by the corona virus, which restricts us all from any academic meetings. After an intense period of organization, initially involving Abralin and CIPL, the event started on May 4th 2020, with Noam Chomsky's opening conference. Read the report by Miguel Oliveira, Jr., President of Abralin. And also visit Abralin's website to learn more about the First International Twitter Conference on Linguistics: Linguistweets. CIPSH Academic Programme The planning of the CIPSH conference in Odense Denmark, December 16-17, 2020 continues despite the challenges linked to Covid-19, including various restrictions on travelling, meetings etc. Read here version one of the outline of the academic program as it looks now that most invited speakers are confirmed. Secretary-General: Prof Frieda Steurs Email: frieda.steurs at ivdnt.org, frieda.steurs at kuleuven.be Associate Secretary-General: Prof Camiel Hamans Email: hamans at telfort.nl Copyright ? 2020 CIPL, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you are interested in linguistics. Our mailing address is: CIPL P.O. Box 3023 Leiden, 2301 DA Netherlands Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. 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As a historical linguist by trade, it is important to me to have the submissions on histling availabe, and be able to contribute myself. Even though I?m listed as subscribed, I get no material from the list. Am I doing something wrong. I?d appreciate it if you could somehow legitimise my membership. Thanks Roger Lass -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sands at lowell.edu Tue Oct 20 13:26:49 2020 From: sands at lowell.edu (Bonny Sands) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 10:26:49 -0700 Subject: [Histling-l] diachronic phonology of clicks Message-ID: <31503F99-A598-47CD-A637-11387A2E5FEC@lowell.edu> FYI, There are several new publications providing evidence of alternations involving clicks: Sands, Bonny. (2020). Click consonants: An introduction. Click Consonants. ed. Bonny Sands. (Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory, 15). Leiden: Brill. pp. 1-73. Mathes, Timothy K. (2020). The interaction between click consonants and tone in Tsua. Click Consonants. ed. Bonny Sands. (Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory, 15). Leiden: Brill. pp. 129-155. Gunnink, Hilde. (2020). Click loss and click insertion in Fwe. Click Consonants. ed. Bonny Sands. (Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory, 15). Leiden: Brill. pp. 156-178. Elderkin, E.D. (2020). The two nasalised accompaniments in proto Khoe. Click Consonants. ed. Bonny Sands. (Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory, 15). Leiden: Brill. pp. 275-290. Fehn, Anne-Maria. (2020). Click loss in Khoe-Kwadi. Click Consonants. ed. Bonny Sands. (Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory, 15). Leiden: Brill. pp. 291-335. Fehn, Anne-Maria. (2020). Click replacement and loss in Ju. Click Consonants. ed. Bonny Sands. (Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory, 15). Leiden: Brill. pp. 336-355. cheers, Bonny Sands From santeri.junttila at helsinki.fi Tue Oct 27 10:11:12 2020 From: santeri.junttila at helsinki.fi (Junttila, Santeri J) Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 14:11:12 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] An international etymological symposium in Griipswoold 16.-20. May 2021 Message-ID: We will organise an international etymological symposium Hansakansan kanssa in Griipswoold/Greifswald, Vorpommern, Germany. All researchers in the field of etymology are invited to participate in the symposium. We welcome proposals for presentations on etymological topics preferably related to the languages spoken now or in the past on the shores of the Baltic Sea. Submissions could be * either 20 min (15 min presentation + 5 min discussion) oral lecture with an illustrative visual presentation * or an electronic poster in PDF format that could be projected on the wall during the poster presentation session. 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The morphological annotation of the Rig-Veda was carried out at the Universit?t Z?rich (UZH) and made available for the project, where information was added and consistency checks were carried out. The source code of the VedaWeb platform application in it's current state is open-sourced via a public GitHub repository. Future versions of the platform are planned to encompass further Old Indic texts, recordings of recitations, and allow users to add data to the platform. VedaWeb is part of the Cologne South Asian Languages and Texts (C-SALT), a collection of several digital humanities projects hosted and developed at the University of Cologne. Take a look! From peter.e.hook at gmail.com Thu Oct 29 12:38:52 2020 From: peter.e.hook at gmail.com (Peter Hook) Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 12:38:52 -0400 Subject: [Histling-l] Launch of "VedaWeb" - a web-based, open-access platform for linguistic research on Old Indic texts In-Reply-To: <0a6ba19b-39dc-14e3-64cc-fc6735ac7192@web.de> References: <0a6ba19b-39dc-14e3-64cc-fc6735ac7192@web.de> Message-ID: Any hope of syntactic tagging? Peter Hook On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 11:49 AM Uta Rein?hl wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > We are pleased to announce the launch of VedaWeb - a web-based, > open-access platform that facilitates linguistic research on Old Indic > texts, funded by the German Research Foundation. > > https://vedaweb.uni-koeln.de/ > > The Rigveda is made available in a digitally accessible as well as > morphologically and metrically annotated form, searchable for > lexicographic and corpus-linguistic criteria. It is linked to the > dictionaries available at Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries via the > C-SALT APIs for Sanskrit Dictionaries. The morphological annotation of > the Rig-Veda was carried out at the Universit?t Z?rich (UZH) and made > available for the project, where information was added and consistency > checks were carried out. The source code of the VedaWeb platform > application in it's current state is open-sourced via a public GitHub > repository. Future versions of the platform are planned to encompass > further Old Indic texts, recordings of recitations, and allow users to > add data to the platform. > > VedaWeb is part of the Cologne South Asian Languages and Texts (C-SALT), > a collection of several digital humanities projects hosted and developed > at the University of Cologne. 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URL: From silvia.luraghi at unipv.it Thu Oct 29 13:06:39 2020 From: silvia.luraghi at unipv.it (Silvia Luraghi) Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 18:06:39 +0100 Subject: [Histling-l] Launch of "VedaWeb" - a web-based, open-access platform for linguistic research on Old Indic texts In-Reply-To: References: <0a6ba19b-39dc-14e3-64cc-fc6735ac7192@web.de> Message-ID: Syntactic tagging is being done by Erica Biagetti at our department in collaboration with a team from Zurich, check this link: https://universaldependencies.org/treebanks/sa_vedic/index.html 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: https://studiumanistici.unipv.it/?pagina=docenti&id=68 Il giorno gio 29 ott 2020 alle ore 17:39 Peter Hook ha scritto: > Any hope of syntactic tagging? > > Peter Hook > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 11:49 AM Uta Rein?hl wrote: > >> Dear colleagues, >> >> We are pleased to announce the launch of VedaWeb - a web-based, >> open-access platform that facilitates linguistic research on Old Indic >> texts, funded by the German Research Foundation. >> >> https://vedaweb.uni-koeln.de/ >> >> The Rigveda is made available in a digitally accessible as well as >> morphologically and metrically annotated form, searchable for >> lexicographic and corpus-linguistic criteria. It is linked to the >> dictionaries available at Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries via the >> C-SALT APIs for Sanskrit Dictionaries. The morphological annotation of >> the Rig-Veda was carried out at the Universit?t Z?rich (UZH) and made >> available for the project, where information was added and consistency >> checks were carried out. The source code of the VedaWeb platform >> application in it's current state is open-sourced via a public GitHub >> repository. Future versions of the platform are planned to encompass >> further Old Indic texts, recordings of recitations, and allow users to >> add data to the platform. >> >> VedaWeb is part of the Cologne South Asian Languages and Texts (C-SALT), >> a collection of several digital humanities projects hosted and developed >> at the University of Cologne. 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URL: From uta.reinoehl at web.de Thu Oct 29 13:12:05 2020 From: uta.reinoehl at web.de (=?UTF-8?Q?Uta_Rein=c3=b6hl?=) Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 18:12:05 +0100 Subject: [Histling-l] Launch of "VedaWeb" - a web-based, open-access platform for linguistic research on Old Indic texts In-Reply-To: References: <0a6ba19b-39dc-14e3-64cc-fc6735ac7192@web.de> Message-ID: <6c13cf61-0266-5175-a91e-5f33e52d83d0@web.de> Yes, we have a corpus of Vedic prose ready-ish which is glossed as well as annotated based on the GRAID (grammatical relations and animacy in discourse) conventions developed by Geoff Haig and Stefan Schnell. This primarily involves the annotation of arguments, adjuncts, their animacy values, plus adds some information on clause structure. And we have added several special annotations for the myriad roles that participles take on in Sanskrit. We are hoping to add our prose corpus soon to VedaWeb - Although I can't say at this point when that will be exactly. We are also planning to add the prose corpus to the Language Archive Cologne by early 2021. I will send an update on this when the day has come. More generally, we are planning to develop VedaWeb in such a way that new annotations of any nature (morphological, syntactic, metric, information-structural ...) can be quite flexibly added to texts. For reference: The prose corpus was put together in this project here: https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/en/research-projects/b03-agent-prominence-and-the-diachrony-of-predication-in-indo-aryan Uta Am 29/10/2020 um 17:38 schrieb Peter Hook: > Any hope of syntactic tagging? > > Peter Hook > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 11:49 AM Uta Rein?hl > wrote: > > Dear colleagues, > > We are pleased to announce the launch of VedaWeb - a web-based, > open-access platform that facilitates linguistic research on Old Indic > texts, funded by the German Research Foundation. > > https://vedaweb.uni-koeln.de/ > > The Rigveda is made available in a digitally accessible as well as > morphologically and metrically annotated form, searchable for > lexicographic and corpus-linguistic criteria. It is linked to the > dictionaries available at Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries > via the > C-SALT APIs for Sanskrit Dictionaries. The morphological annotation of > the Rig-Veda was carried out at the Universit?t Z?rich (UZH) and made > available for the project, where information was added and consistency > checks were carried out. The source code of the VedaWeb platform > application in it's current state is open-sourced via a public GitHub > repository. Future versions of the platform are planned to encompass > further Old Indic texts, recordings of recitations, and allow users to > add data to the platform. > > VedaWeb is part of the Cologne South Asian Languages and Texts > (C-SALT), > a collection of several digital humanities projects hosted and > developed > at the University of Cologne. Take a look! > > _______________________________________________ > 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 lauersdorf at uky.edu Fri Oct 30 21:55:08 2020 From: lauersdorf at uky.edu (Lauersdorf, Mark R.) Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2020 01:55:08 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] 2nd Call ! -- 2021 NARNiHS Research Incubator Message-ID: ***** 2nd Call for Abstracts *****. *** 2 more weeks to submit your work! ***. 2021 NARNiHS Research Incubator. of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics. 22-24 April 2021 -- entirely online! The 2021 NARNiHS Research Incubator will take place as an entirely online event. This presents a great opportunity for scholars in historical sociolinguistics from all over the world to participate as presenters and/or attendees without the limitations imposed by international travel, and we encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists, and scholars from related fields, from Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and Central and South America (in addition to North America) to join us for our Research Incubator this spring. ==> Abstract submission deadline: 15 November 2020, 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern Time). ==> Abstract submission portal: https://kflc.as.uky.edu/ . The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its *2021 NARNiHS Research Incubator*. Building on the great success of the first two years, 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 of ideas. 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 15 November 2020 - 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 for *student* papers accepted for presentation at the 2021 NARNiHS Research Incubator. Information about applying for the stipend will be sent after acceptance of abstracts. 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 01 March 2021 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 santeri.junttila at helsinki.fi Mon Nov 23 09:54:04 2020 From: santeri.junttila at helsinki.fi (Junttila, Santeri J) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 14:54:04 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] An international etymological symposium in Griipswoold 16.-20. May 2021 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear colleagues, this is just a little refresh of our symposium call, since there is just one week left before the deadline for registration. I also re-send the German Rundbrief, since the etymological explanation of the symposium name had somehow dropped out from the last version. We are still optimistic about getting together in May 2021 with help of incoming medical innovations. The other possibility is May 2022, and we will make the final decision about postponing the symposium during the first days of 2021. Best wishes Santeri Junttila ________________________________ L?hett?j?: Junttila, Santeri J L?hetetty: tiistai 27. lokakuuta 2020 16.11 Vastaanottaja: histling-l at mailman.yale.edu Aihe: An international etymological symposium in Griipswoold 16.-20. May 2021 We will organise an international etymological symposium Hansakansan kanssa in Griipswoold/Greifswald, Vorpommern, Germany. All researchers in the field of etymology are invited to participate in the symposium. We welcome proposals for presentations on etymological topics preferably related to the languages spoken now or in the past on the shores of the Baltic Sea. Submissions could be * either 20 min (15 min presentation + 5 min discussion) oral lecture with an illustrative visual presentation * or an electronic poster in PDF format that could be projected on the wall during the poster presentation session. Please register via an e-mail to etym-symposium at uni-greifswald.de by the end of November 2020. 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