From andres.enrique at uib.es Tue Jan 11 18:50:07 2022 From: andres.enrique at uib.es (=?UTF-8?Q?Andr=C3=A9s_Enrique?=) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 00:50:07 +0100 Subject: [Histling-l] 6th International Conference on Diachronic Corpora in Ibero-Romance Languages (CODILI6) Message-ID: <01b901d80745$f70000a0$e50001e0$@uib.es> The 6th edition of the ?International Conference on Diachronic Corpora in Ibero-Romance Languages? will be held at the Universit? Ca 'Foscari - Venezia on October 5-7, 2022. As in the previous meetings (Palma de Mallorca 2007, Barcelona 2011, Z?rich 2014, Alcal? de Henares 2016, Brussels 2019), CODILI represents a unique discussion forum for specialists in the use of language corpora for historical research on Ibero-Romance languages ??and their varieties. Those interested in participating in CODILI6 are invited to send contributions that: 1) present new corpora or digital tools for the historical study of the Ibero-Romance languages and their geographical distribution; 2) examine linguistic phenomena that reflect historical variation in one or several Ibero-Romance varieties; 3) focus on the study of the historical dialectology of the Ibero-Romance varieties, their presence in countries of Europe, America, Africa and Asia. Plenary speakers that have confirmed their participation - Alexandra Fi?is (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) - Manuel P?rez Saldanya (Universitat de Val?ncia) - Francisco Javier Pueyo Mena (Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies) - Carlota de Benito Moreno (Universit?t Z?rich) Paper presentations (20 minutes plus 10 minutes discussion) are accepted in any Ibero-Romance language and English until January 31, 2022. Proposals will take a maximum of 500 words, Times New Roman font, 1.5 spacing, Word document (bibliography included) and will be sent to the email address: venezia6codili at gmail.com . More information at: URL: https://venezia6codili.wordpress.com/ Contact: venezia6codili at gmail.com Scientific committee: Bert Cornillie (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Cristina Matute (Sant Louis University Madrid) Eugenia Sainz Gonz?lez (Universit? Ca? Foscari ? Venezia) Ignacio Arroyo Hern?ndez (Universit? Ca? Foscari ? Venezia) Javier Rodr?guez Molina (Universidad de Granada) Malte Rosemeyer (Albert-Ludwigs-Universit?t Freiburg) Maria Assumpci? Rost Bagudanch (Universitat de les Illes Balears) Matteo De Beni (Universit? degli Studi di Verona) Ruth Miguel Franco (Universitat de les Illes Balears) Vanessa Castagna (Universit? Ca? Foscari ? Venezia) Organizing committee: Florencio del Barrio de la Rosa (Universit? Ca? Foscari - Venezia) Elena Dal Maso (Universit? Ca? 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Lund) Course 4 = Baltic (Axel Holvoet, Vilnius) Course 5 = Armenian (Petr Kocharov, St. Petersburg) Invited lecture = TBA Admission: We invite PhD students, as well as Postdocs and other young researchers. Advanced MA students will also be considered for admission, based on a written statement of their motivation for attending the school. As all courses will be taught in English, a good knowledge of English is a basic requirement. Fees: There will be a 100 euros registration fee to be paid in advance by June 30. Applications: - Please send applications to *silvia.luraghi at unipv.it * - Send an email application with your name and affiliation and your current position. - If you are an undergraduate, or have not yet finished your MA, please also attach a letter of motivation. Participation in the Summer School, including active participation in the Poster Session, stands for 3 ECTS. *Schedule*: Monday 5 Tuesday 6 Wednesday 7 Thursday 8 Friday 9 Saturday 10 9.10-10.55 course 1 course 5 course 3 course 2 course 5 course 4 10.55-11.15 break break break break break break 11.15-13.00 course 2 course 1 course 4 course 3 course 1 course 5 13.00-14.30 lunch lunch lunch lunch lunch lunch 14.30-16.20 course 3 course 2 course 5 course 4 course 2 Visit - Museum of Archaeology 16.20-16.40 break break break break break 16.40-18.30 course 4 Poster session course 1 Invited lecture course 3 Walking tour of Pavia Guided tour of the University Dinner Silvia Luraghi Universit? di Pavia Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Sezione di Linguistica Strada Nuova 65 I-27100 Pavia tel.: +39/0382/984685 Web page personale: https://studiumanistici.unipv.it/?pagina=docenti&id=68 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lauersdorf at uky.edu Sat Mar 5 22:21:10 2022 From: lauersdorf at uky.edu (Lauersdorf, Mark R.) Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2022 03:21:10 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] =?windows-1252?q?2nd_call_for_submissions__=96__=22?= =?windows-1252?q?English_in_Central_Europe=22__=28special_issue_of_ELOPE?= =?windows-1252?q?=29?= Message-ID: 2nd Call for Submissions Autumn special issue of ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries ** English in Central Europe **. With its international prominence in today's world, English is in contact (to greater or lesser degrees) with most languages and societies around the globe, with the results of that contact varying from location to location, depending on both the linguistic and the socio-cultural factors of the particular local context. This special issue of ELOPE to be published in December 2022 focuses on the presence of English specifically in Central Europe and its interaction with the languages and societies of the region. Central Europe may be a concept that is difficult to pin down geographically and politically, since it is in some cases defined by historical roots (despite differences in 20th-century social and political developments), while other conceptualizations build specifically on more recent commonalities of experience (in the last 50-100 years). At the same time the concept remains in use precisely because it is a useful one, in that it captures an area with some common socio-cultural traditions that in many ways create a recognizable milieu and a feeling of familiarity. This can extend to the manner in which English is received and welcomed, as a means not only of communication but also of participation in the global culture. For this special issue of ELOPE on English in Central Europe, we invite research that examines all aspects of English language use in Central European contexts across all fields of linguistic investigation (historical, sociolinguistic, structural, acquisitional, etc.) including, but not limited to, the following areas: - variation and change in linguistic structures of local language(s) induced by contact with English; - contact varieties of English developed through contact with local language(s); - history of English language use in local context(s); - English in competition with local language(s) across societal domains of use; - societal reception of the use of English in local context(s); - English as a lingua franca in Central European context(s); - acquisition of English and acquired societal bilingualism; - and many more areas... ==> Manuscript submission deadline: 15 May 2022 <==. General submission guidelines: - The language of contributions is English. - Manuscripts should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words in length, with a short abstract of no more than 150 words. - All submitted papers must follow the ELOPE Author Guidelines: https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/elope/about/submissions . - Manuscripts should be submitted for blind review in digital form using the Faculty of Arts (University of Ljubljana) OJS platform: https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/elope/information/authors . Please direct all inquiries to the guest editors of this special issue: - Monika Kavalir (monika.kavalir at ff.uni-lj.si). - Mark Richard Lauersdorf (lauersdorf at uky.edu). Articles published in ELOPE are indexed/reviewed in: Scopus; ERIH PLUS; MLA International Bibliography; OCLC WorldCat; CNKI; DOAJ; Google Scholar; COBISS.si; dLib.si. From beatrice at sas.upenn.edu Wed Mar 30 11:00:36 2022 From: beatrice at sas.upenn.edu (Santorini, Beatrice) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 15:00:36 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Revised version of Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence available on github References: Message-ID: <4947CB73-21F7-4E18-A668-C772A946C33F@upenn.edu> Dear all, I?m pleased to announce a revised version of the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence (PCEEC), originally deposited with the Oxford Text Archive (OTA) in 2006. Under normal circumstances, I?d just deposit the new version with the OTA, but they are currently not accepting new deposits. So I?m posting the new version on Github. Here?s the address: https://github.com/beatrice57/pceec2/ And here is the link to the README file for your convenience: https://github.com/beatrice57/pceec2/blob/main/README.rst Please don?t hesitate to get in touch with me with questions or further corrections. 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Advanced MA students will also be considered for admission, based on a written statement of their motivation for attending the school. As all courses will be taught in English, a good knowledge of English is a basic requirement. Fees: There will be a 100 euros registration fee to be paid in advance by June 30. Applications: - Please send applications to *silvia.luraghi at unipv.it * - Send an email application with your name and affiliation and your current position. - If you are an undergraduate, or have not yet finished your MA, please also attach a letter of motivation. Participation in the Summer School, including active participation in the Poster Session, stands for 3 ECTS. *Schedule*: Monday 5 Tuesday 6 Wednesday 7 Thursday 8 Friday 9 Saturday 10 9.10-10.55 course 1 course 5 course 3 course 2 course 5 course 4 10.55-11.15 break break break break break break 11.15-13.00 course 2 course 1 course 4 course 3 course 1 course 5 13.00-14.30 lunch lunch lunch lunch lunch lunch 14.30-16.20 course 3 course 2 course 5 course 4 course 2 Visit - Museum of Archaeology 16.20-16.40 break break break break break 16.40-18.30 course 4 Poster session course 1 Invited lecture course 3 Walking tour of Pavia Guided tour of the University Dinner Silvia Luraghi Universit? di Pavia Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Sezione di Linguistica Strada Nuova 65 I-27100 Pavia tel.: +39/0382/984685 Web page personale: https://studiumanistici.unipv.it/?pagina=docenti&id=68 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Keynote speakers: Andrea Drocco (University of Venice, Ca' Foscari) Anna Pompei (Roma Tre University) Krzysztof Stro?ski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna?) Carlotta Viti (Beijing Normal University) Organizing & scientific committee: Paola Cotticelli (University of Verona) Eystein Dahl (UiT The Arctic University of Norway) Jelena ?ivojinovi? (University of Verona) Contact e-mail: diacon2022gmail.com Final Call for Papers: We invite abstracts for 20 minute talks, which are followed by 10 minute discussions. They should clearly state the research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. They must be anonymized and should not exceed 500 words (including examples, excluding references). All abstracts will be subject to a double-blind peer review. Abstracts are submitted via Easychair by June 1, 2022 at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=diacon2022 Eystein Dahl Institutt for spr?k og kultur/Department of Language and Culture UIT Norges arktiske universitet/UIT The Arctic University of Norway Postboks 6050 Langnes 9037 TROMS? +47 776 44290 Associated Senior Fellow, Norwegian Institute of Philology https://www.philology.no/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From paoram at unipv.it Mon Apr 25 10:02:28 2022 From: paoram at unipv.it (Paolo Ramat) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 16:02:28 +0200 Subject: [Histling-l] List of publications Message-ID: Dear histling-l mailman, please find enclosed the complete list of my writings updated 31.Dec. 2021.. It might be of some interest for the histling-l users. Thanks and best regards. Prof. Dr. Paolo Ramat Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Socio corrispondente 'Academia Europaea' 'Societas Linguistica Europaea', Honorary Member Universit? di Pavia (retired) Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori (IUSS Pavia) (retired) piazzetta Arduino 11 - I 27100 Pavia ##39 0382 27027 347 044 98 44 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PUBBLICAZIONI.rtf Type: application/msword Size: 348611 bytes Desc: not available URL: From ebernard at filol.ucm.es Mon Apr 25 10:04:39 2022 From: ebernard at filol.ucm.es (ENRIQUE BERNARDEZ SANCHIS) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 16:04:39 +0200 Subject: [Histling-l] List of publications In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Mille grazie, caro professore. Enrique Bern?rdez El lun, 25 abr 2022 16:02, Paolo Ramat escribi?: > Dear histling-l mailman, > please find enclosed the complete list of my writings updated 31.Dec. > 2021.. It might be of some interest for the histling-l users. > Thanks and best regards. > Prof. Dr. Paolo Ramat > Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Socio corrispondente > 'Academia Europaea' > 'Societas Linguistica Europaea', Honorary Member > Universit? di Pavia (retired) > Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori (IUSS Pavia) (retired) > > piazzetta Arduino 11 - I 27100 Pavia > ##39 0382 27027 > 347 044 98 44 > _______________________________________________ > 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 nora.dornbrack at ilos.uio.no Tue May 3 07:12:30 2022 From: nora.dornbrack at ilos.uio.no (=?Windows-1252?Q?Nora_D=F6rnbrack?=) Date: Tue, 3 May 2022 11:12:30 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Masterclass: Varieties of Scots in Late Modern Times Message-ID: <9fb76f0003e8459cb7cc26163da50233@ilos.uio.no> Dear colleagues, (apologies for cross-posting) We are delighted to announce that the upcoming masterclass on Varieties of Scots in Late Modern Times will be hosted as an online event on 7 and 8 June 2022 at the University of Oslo, Norway. Four scholars active in the field of English historical sociolinguistics will explore theoretical and applied perspectives on the changing status and use of Scots over the course of four lectures: 18th-century Scots viewed through the lens of female letter-writers? discursive practices Christine Elsweiler, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen Graphic cues and expressive form in eighteenth-century Scottish writing Jeremy Smith, University of Glasgow Periodisation MasterChef, or how to chop up the timeline Joanna Kopaczyk, University of Glasgow The status of Scots: changing perceptions Derrick McClure, University of Aberdeen Please find further information on the programme and how to register on our website. Registration and attendance is free and open to the public. Participants are free to join for one or both sessions. The masterclass is kindly sponsored by the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo. We are looking forward to welcoming you virtually in Oslo! Best wishes, Nora D?rnbrack (on behalf of the organizing committee) ___________________ Nora D?rnbrack Doctoral Research Fellow Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages University of Oslo https://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/english/people/aca/norado/index.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From claire.bowern at yale.edu Thu May 5 21:25:49 2022 From: claire.bowern at yale.edu (Claire Bowern) Date: Thu, 5 May 2022 21:25:49 -0400 Subject: [Histling-l] Call for submissions: thematic issue of Diachronica Message-ID: *Call for Submissions: * *Special Thematic Issue on the Historical Linguistics of Signed Languages* The past two centuries of research on human language change have produced great insights into the extent, types, and mechanisms of language change. Theories and models of change within the field of historical linguistics, however, overwhelmingly derive solely from languages in the oral/aural modality. At the same time, for at least the last half century, linguists working on languages in gestural/visual and/or tactile modalities have made strides in exploring historical relationships among sign languages (Woodward 1978, 2000, 2011; McKee and Kennedy 2000; Yu et al. 2018; Abner et al. 2020; Reagan 2021; Power et al. 2020; Power 2022), Creolization and sign languages (Fisher 1978, 1996; Meier 1984, Kegl et al. 1999), the historical sociolinguistics and philology of signed languages (Lucas et al. 2001, McCaskill et al. 2011, Fischer 2015, Battison et al. 1975, Shaw and Delaporte 2014), the diachrony of specific sign languages (Supalla and Clark 2015, Wilkinson 2016, Wilcox and Occhino 2016,), and language contact, both within and across modalities (Brentari and Padden 2001, Quinto-Pozos 2007, 2008, Battison 1978). Sign linguistics research has also proposed compelling generalizations of types of sign changes (Frishberg 1975, Radutzky 1989), and introduced a wealth of new data and insights on the emergence of new languages in homes, villages and communities (Polich 2005, Zeshan and de Vos 2012, Goldin-Meadow and Mylander 1990, Singleton et al. 1993, Hou 2016, Senghas and Coppola 2001, Wilcox 2009, Edwards and Brentari 2021, Sandler et al. 2011, Power 2020). Yet, in spite of the clear thematic and theoretical relevance of signed languages to the understanding of human language change, there has been strikingly little dialogue or cross-pollination between historical linguistics research on spoken languages and scholarship on the diachrony of signed languages. As a telling datum, *Diachronica *has not yet published a single research article dedicated to a sign language over its nearly 40 years. In the interest of starting to redress this gap and spurring greater consideration of signed language data in the development of theories of human language change, we invite submissions for a special thematic issue on the historical linguistics of signed languages. We invite papers that deal with change in languages in the gestural/visual (or tactile) modality and which, consistent with the journal's usual submission guidelines , combine new insights of theoretical interest with rigorous analysis of data, and have a diachronic focus, rather than synchronically analyzed data from older languages. Topics may address a wide range of issues related to language change including, but not limited to: - Processes of change in the context of emerging home or village sign languages - The historical emergence and development of signed languages that have been linked to the establishment of schools for the deaf or other institutions - Contact between signed languages or between signed and spoken/written languages - Theoretical contributions to models of language families, cognacy, and linguistic relatedness in the context of sign languages - Effects of language modality on processes of language change: e.g., effects of iconicity, effects of aspects of linguistics structure that are typical of a given language modality, etc. - Language change at all linguistic levels within stable sign languages - Comparative/Historical reconstruction of earlier stages of sign languages - Sign etymologies - Presentation of historically-oriented or comparative corpora for sign languages Please submit papers online through the Editorial Manager system, with ?thematic issue? as the article type. Articles may be up to 10,000 words, and shorter articles or discussion notes are accepted. Regular *Diachronica *submission instructions apply in other respects. For thematic review article suggestions, please contact the editor before submission. You are welcome to submit a presubmission inquiry. Deadline for the thematic issue is May 1, 2023. (However, please note that submissions on the diachrony of signed languages are welcome at any time.) Abner, N., Geraci, C., Yu, S., Lettieri, J., Mertz, J., and Salgat, A. (2020). Getting the upper hand on sign language families. FEAST 3, 17?29. doi: 10.31009/FEAST.i3.02 Battison, R., Markowicz, H., and Woodward, J. (1975). A good rule of thumb: Variable phonology in American Sign Language. In R. W. Fasold & R. W. Shuy Analyzing (Eds.), *Variation in Language: Papers from the Second Colloquium on New Ways of Analyzing Variation*, 291?302. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press. Battison, R. (1978). Lexical Borrowing in American Sign Language. Silver Spring, MD: Linkstok Press. Brentari, D., and C. A. Padden. 2001. Native and foreign vocabulary in American Sign Language: A lexicon with multiple origins. In Foreign vocabulary in sign languages: A cross-linguistic investigation of word formation, ed. D. Brentari, 87-119. Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum. Edwards, T., and D. Brentari. 2021. The grammatical incorporation of demonstratives in an emerging tactile language. *Frontiers in Communication: Language Sciences*. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.579992 Fischer, S. D. (1978). Sign languages and creoles. In Understanding Language Through Sign Research, ed P. Siple (New York, NY: Academic Press), 309?331. Fischer, S. D. (1996). By the numbers: Language-internal evidence for creolization, in International Review of Sign Linguistics, Vol. 1, eds. W. H. Edmondson and R. B. Wilbur (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum), 1?22. Fischer, S. D. (2015). Sign languages in their historical context, in The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics, eds C. Bowern and B. Evans (London: Routledge), 442?465. Frishberg, N. (1975). Arbitrariness and iconicity: Historical change in American Sign Language. Language 51, 696?719. doi: 10.2307/412894 Goldin-Meadow, S. & Mylander, C. (1990). Beyond the input given: The child?s role in the acquisition of language. *Language* 66 (2). 323?355. Kegl, J., Senghas, A., and Coppola, M. (1999). Creation through contact: Sign language emergence and sign language change in Nicaragua. In M. DeGraff (Ed.), *Language creation and language change*, 179?238. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Lucas, C. Bayley, R., & Valli, C. (2001). *Sociolinguistic variation in American Sign Language*. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press. McCaskill, C. Lucas, C. Hill, J. and Bayley, R. (2011). The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL: Its History and Structure. Washington D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. McKee, D., and Kennedy, G. (2000). Lexical comparison of signs from American, Australian, British, and New Zealand sign languages, in The Signs of Language Revisited: An Anthology to Honor Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima, eds K. Emmorey and H. Lane (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum), 49?76. Meier, R. P. (1984). Sign as creole. Behav. Brain Sci. 7. 201?202. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X00044289 Polich, L. (2005). The Emergence of the Deaf Community in Nicaragua: With Sign Language You Can Learn so Much. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press. Power, J. M. (2020). The origins of Russian-Tajik Sign Language: Investigating the Historical Sources and Transmission of a Signed Language in Tajikistan. Austin, TX: University of Texas at Austin dissertation. Power, J. M. (2022). Historical Linguistics of Sign Languages: Progress and Problems. Front. Psychol. 13:818753. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.818753 Power, J. M., Grimm, G. W., and List, J.-M. (2020). Evolutionary dynamics in the dispersal of sign languages. Royal Soc. Open Sci. 7, 1?15. doi: 10.1098/rsos.191100 Quinto-Pozos, D. (2008). Sign language contact and interference: ASL and LSM. Lang. Soc. 37, 161?189. doi: 10.1017/S0047404508080251 Radutzky, E. J. (1989). *La Lingua Italiana dei Segni: Historical change in the sign language of deaf people in Italy*. New York University dissertation. Reagan, T. (2021). Historical linguistics and the case for sign language families. Sign Lang. Stud. 21, 427?454. doi: 10.1353/sls.2021.0006 Hou, L. (2016). Making Hands: Family Sign Languages in the San Juan Quiahije Community. Austin, TX: University of Texas at Austin dissertation. Sandler, W., Aronoff, M., Meir, I. and Padden, C. (2011) The gradual emergence of phonological form in a new language. *Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 29*(2),503-543. Schembri, A., McKee, D., McKee, R., Pivac, S., Johnston, T., and Goswell, D. (2009). Phonological variation and change in Australian and New Zealand Sign Languages: The location variable. Lang. Var. Change 21, 193?231. doi: 10.1017/S0954394509990081 Senghas, A., and Coppola, M. (2001). Children creating language: How Nicaraguan Sign Language acquired a spatial grammar. Psychol. Sci. 12, 323?328. doi: 10.1111/1467-9280.00359 Shaw, E., and Delaporte, Y. (2014). A Historical and Etymological Dictionary of American Sign Language. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press. Singleton, Jenny L., Jill P. Morford, & Susan Goldin-Meadow. 1993. Once is not enough: Standards of well-formedness in manual communication created over three different time spans. *Language*69 (4). 683?715. Supalla, T., and Clark, P. (2015). Sign Language Archaeology: Understanding the Historical Roots of American Sign Language. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press. Wilcox, S. (2009). Symbol and Symptom: Routes from Gesture to Signed Language. *Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics* 7: 89?110. Wilcox, S. and Occhino, C. (2016). Historical Change in Signed Languages. Chicago, IL: Oxford Handbooks Online. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935345.013.24 Wilkinson, E. (2016). Finding frequency effects in the usage of NOT collocations in American Sign Language. Sign Language & Linguistics 19(1): 82-123. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.19.1.03wil Woodward, J. (1978). Historical bases of American Sign Language. In Understanding Language Through Sign Language Research, ed P. Siple (New York, NY: Academic Press), 333?348. Woodward, J. (2000). Sign languages and sign language families in Thailand and Vietnam. In The Signs of Language Revisited: An Anthology to Honor Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima, eds. K. Emmorey and H. Lane (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum), 25?45. Woodward, J. (2011). Some observations on research methodology in lexicostatistical studies of sign languages. In Deaf Around the World: The Impact of Language, eds. G. Mathur and D. J. Napoli (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 38?53. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199732548.00 3.0002 Yu, S., Geraci, C., and Abner, N. (2018). Sign languages and the online world of online dictionaries and lexicostatistics. In LREC 2018, ed N. Calzolari (Miyazaki: European Language Resources Association), 4235?4240. Zeshan, U. & de Vos, C. (Eds.). (2012). *Sign languages in village communities: Anthropological and linguistic insights*. Berlin & Nijmegen: De Gruyter Mouton & Ishara Press. -- Claire Bowern Professor Editor: *Diachronica* Department of Linguistics, Yale University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Diachronica -SLCall for Submissions V2.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 74302 bytes Desc: not available URL: From rbnmyr at gmail.com Thu May 19 05:44:24 2022 From: rbnmyr at gmail.com (R. Meyer) Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 09:44:24 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] =?windows-1252?q?Journ=E9e_d=27=E9tudes_consacr=E9e?= =?windows-1252?q?_=E0_Antoine_Meillet?= Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Some of you may be interested in a workshop about the life and work of Antoine Meillet which will take place at the Universit? de Lausanne (and on Zoom) on Thursday, 9 June. Please find a detailed description and programme following this link: https://agenda.unil.ch/display/1651222598021 Those of you interested in attending, either in person or via Zoom are asked to please contact me: robin.meyer at unil.ch With many thanks and best wishes, Robin ___________ Robin MEYER Professeur assistant en linguistique diachronique Associate Editor, Journal of Indo-European Studies Universit? de Lausanne Section des sciences du langage et de l'information Anthropole ? bureau 3141.3 CH?1015 Lausanne Suisse -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Lund) > > Course 4 = Celtic (Aaron Griffith, Utrecht) > > Course 5 = Baltic (Axel Holvoet, Vilnius) > > > > Invited lecture = Brian Joseph (Ohio State University) > > > > Poster session organized by Erica Biagetti (Pavia) and Maria Molina > (Moscow) > > > > Admission: > > We invite PhD students, as well as Postdocs and other young researchers. > Advanced MA students will also be considered for admission, based on a > written statement of their motivation for attending the school. As all > courses will be taught in English, a good knowledge of English is a basic > requirement. > Fees: > > There will be a 100 euros registration fee to be paid in advance by June > 30. > Applications: > > - Please send applications to *silvia.luraghi at unipv.it > * > - Send an email application with your name and affiliation and your > current position. > - If you are an undergraduate, or have not yet finished your MA, > please also attach a letter of motivation. > > Participation in the Summer School, including active participation in the > Poster Session, stands for 3 ECTS. > > > > Silvia Luraghi > Universit? di Pavia > Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Sezione di Linguistica > Strada Nuova 65 > I-27100 Pavia > tel.: +39/0382/984685 > Web page personale: https://studiumanistici.unipv.it/?pagina=docenti&id=68 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We additionally aim to put together a free eBook of all published manuscripts to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of the latest research developments in the field. You can find a full description of the article collection here: http://fron.tiers.in/rt/ 38650 The deadline for abstract submissions is the 31st of July 2022; and the deadline for manuscript submissions is the 30th of December 2022, but we can accommodate extensions for both on a case-by-case basis. Please do not hesitate to reach out to us. Please note that publishing fees are applied to accepted articles, but the team at Frontiers is happy to advise you in this regard. You can reach out to our dedicated point of contact at Frontiers, Rose Gordon-Orr, at communication. submissions at frontiersin.org if you have any questions. Our collaboration is with Frontiers in Communication, but submissions are also welcome via Frontiers in Psychology. 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Those of you interested in participating are asked to register using the following link: https://wp.unil.ch/quidestqui/registration/ Registration will remain open until 26 June 2022, 23h59 CEST (for in-person participation) and 29 June (for online participation) respectively. The programme of the day as well as abstracts of the presentations can be found here: https://wp.unil.ch/quidestqui/programme/ Registration and participation, in-person as well as online, are free of charge. I remain at your disposal for any and all questions. Best wishes, ___________ Robin MEYER Professeur assistant en linguistique diachronique Associate Editor, Journal of Indo-European Studies Universit? de Lausanne Section des sciences du langage et de l'information Anthropole ? bureau 3141.3 CH?1015 Lausanne Suisse -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From grollemundr at missouri.edu Mon Jun 20 16:32:57 2022 From: grollemundr at missouri.edu (Grollemund, Rebecca B.) Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 20:32:57 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Postdoc @ Columbia, Missouri In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Please show this ad to any suitable candidates you know. Thank you. Rebecca Grollemund ====== *1 POSTDOCTORAL POSITION (2 years) at the University of Missouri-Columbia* Job description The English Department (Linguistics Program) at the University of Missouri invites applications for a two-year non-renewable Postdoctoral Research Associate position to carry out historical-comparative linguistic research within the NSF-funded project led by Dr. Rebecca Grollemund (Department of English-Linguistics program) and Dr Guanyu Hu (Department of Statistics). The project's full title is "Continuity and divergence in Cameroonian languages: New perspectives on the Bantu genesis". For a short project description, check https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2152822&HistoricalAwards=false. The successful candidate will be responsible for the collection and analysis of the comparative lexical and non-lexical data (phonology, morphology and syntax) for Bantu and Bantoid languages spoken in southern Cameroon in order to investigate the intricate relationships observed between these languages by compiling the first comparative database ('CAMOID'). This particular area where Bantu and Bantoid languages are in contact is known to be linguistically extremely heterogenous, and the languages spoken near the Bantu cradle display unique linguistic features. The data collected will be analyzed with computational and phylogenetic methods in order to produce new classifications that will generate novel insights into the first steps of the Bantu Expansion. The successful candidate will be expected to carry out both independent and joint research, and to disseminate research results together with the research team via the publication in international peer-reviewed journals, the participation in conferences and the popularization for a wider audience. The successful candidate might be involved in teaching linguistics to BA and MA students and in the supervision of BA and MA students doing research in the field of Bantu linguistics. The starting date for this position is August 1 or September 1, 2022. For more information or a full project description, contact grollemundr at missouri.edu Qualification * A PhD in linguistics, or computational linguistics or a related field * Applicants have done descriptive and/or comparative linguistic research on Bantu languages (or another language family) * Applicants are familiar with historical linguistics * Some knowledge in statistical software such as SPSS, R, Python, and etc. preferred but not required * Applicants have done linguistic fieldwork in Africa (or in another country) * Applicants have an interest in corpus-based and/or quantitative approaches to language comparison * Applicants have published in international peer-reviewed journals * Applicants have presented at international conferences * Applicants have good knowledge of English * The postdoctoral researcher is a dynamic and enthusiastic team player How to apply? Send your CV, a research statement and two samples of written work in English to Rebecca Grollemund, grollemundr at missouri.edu, University of Missouri, Department of English, 321 Tate Hall, 519 S 9th Street, Columbia, Mo 65211. The research statement should include a research plan, in which the candidate explains how you would tackle the proposed research over a period of two years and two letters of reference, one of these from your most recent employer/supervisor. For more information or a full project description: grollemundr at missouri.edu ====== Rebecca Grollemund Assistant Professor University of Missouri https://english.missouri.edu/people/grollemund -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amc at ed.ac.uk Tue Jun 21 13:00:19 2022 From: amc at ed.ac.uk (Angus McIntosh Centre) Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 17:00:19 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Call for Papers: Third Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics Symposium Message-ID: <8913858B-9C3A-4F92-A2AA-7F3B1D090713@ed.ac.uk> Dear all, Apologies for cross-posting. We are delighted to announce the dates, invited speakers and call for papers for The Third Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics Symposium On the topic of 'Change in syntax and phonology: the same or different?' 5-7 DECEMBER 2022 ? The University of Edinburgh Deadline for abstracts: 1st August 2022 Conference website: https://www.amc.lel.ed.ac.uk/amc-symposium/third-amc-symposium-2022/ Invited speakers: * Ail?s Cournane (New York University) * William Croft (University of New Mexico) * Ans van Kemenade (Radboud University Nijmegen) * Marc van Oostendorp (Radboud University Nijmegen) * Joseph Salmons (University of Wisconsin - Madison) * Meredith Tamminga (University of Pennsylvania) * David Willis (University of Oxford) We intend to hold the symposium in-person in Edinburgh (if COVID restrictions return, we will switch to online). Direct any enquiries to: amc-sympo at mlist.is.ed.ac.uk ------------------------ BACKGROUND What is the locus of linguistic change? Is it the same in syntax and in phonology? Does language acquisition have a crucial role in change? Or does change happen in adults? Are speakers and hearers equally important in change? Is reanalysis and restructuring always fundamental in implementing change? Is change fed by exogenous or endogenous factors (or both)? Should we expect the answers to these questions to be the same across the grammar, or are there reasons to expect that phonology and syntax will behave differently? These fundamental questions are often overlooked in historical linguistics as we strive to understand particular changes or types of change from specific languages or from only one linguistic level. This symposium intends to offer a space for their discussion by bringing together (historically interested) specialists from both syntax and phonology (and related fields) and by inviting engagement with them. We do not expect to answer all of these questions, but we hope to make progress in understanding them. ------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS The seven invited speakers at the symposium have all been invited to address issues from the perspective of both phonology and syntax, in one-hour speaking slots. We are now also inviting abstracts for regular (half-hour) talks from anyone else who would like to participate in the symposium. We would welcome abstracts that deal with any aspect of historical syntax or historical phonology, but we especially encourage abstracts that engage in some way with questions like the following: * What are the mechanisms through which change occurs in syntax and/or in phonology? To what extent can the mechanisms of change identified at one linguistic level be generalised to account for change at the other? * What age are the speaker-hearers who lead change? Should we expect the answer to this question to be the same for phonology and syntax? * What is the relative importance of reanalysis and gradual change during a lifespan in linguistic change? * To what extent is change fed by exogenous or endogenous factors? And how do such factors feed into acquisition? Do exogenous and endogenous factors play the same roles in phonological and syntactic change? While the invited speakers have been asked to address the issues from the perspective of both phonology and syntax, we would welcome abstracts for regular talks which focus on either phonology and syntax. ------------------------ ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Please submit abstracts* of up to 400 words (excluding references) via the EasyAbs link below (deadline: 1 August 2022). Submissions will be subjected to a double-blind peer-review process. Please make sure that submitted files (.doc, .pdf, .txt, or .odt) are fully anonymised. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by 22 August 2022. *No more than one individual and one co-authored paper per participant. The EasyAbs abstract submission page for the symposium is here: https://edin.ac/3HJMpr1 ----- Benjamin Molineaux Secretary, The Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th? ann an Oilthigh Dh?n ?ideann, cl?raichte an Alba, ?ireamh cl?raidh SC005336. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk Wed Jul 20 06:50:08 2022 From: patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk (Patrick Honeybone) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 10:50:08 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] 2nd call for papers - Change in syntax and phonology: the same or different? Message-ID: <1BC05498-B417-43D1-B532-4F72F78D3626@ed.ac.uk> SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS The 3rd Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics Symposium 'Change in syntax and phonology: the same or different?' 5-7 DECEMBER 2022 University of Edinburgh Deadline for abstracts: 10th August 2022 (NB: we have put this back slightly) Conference website: https://www.amc.lel.ed.ac.uk/amc-symposium/third-amc-symposium-2022/ Invited speakers: * Ail?s Cournane (New York University) * William Croft (University of New Mexico) * Ans van Kemenade (Radboud University Nijmegen) * Marc van Oostendorp (Radboud University Nijmegen) * Joseph Salmons (University of Wisconsin - Madison) * Meredith Tamminga (University of Pennsylvania) * David Willis (University of Oxford) We intend to hold the symposium in-person in Edinburgh (if COVID restrictions return, we will switch to online). Direct any enquiries to: amc-sympo at mlist.is.ed.ac.uk ------------------------ BACKGROUND What is the locus of linguistic change? Is it the same in syntax and in phonology? Does language acquisition have a crucial role in change? Or does change happen in adults? Are speakers and hearers equally important in change? Is reanalysis and restructuring always fundamental in implementing change? Is change fed by exogenous or endogenous factors (or both)? Should we expect the answers to these questions to be the same across the grammar, or are there reasons to expect that phonology and syntax will behave differently? These fundamental questions are often overlooked in historical linguistics as we strive to understand particular changes or types of change from specific languages or from only one linguistic level. This symposium intends to offer a space for their discussion by bringing together (historically interested) specialists from both syntax and phonology (and related fields) and by inviting engagement with them. We do not expect to answer all of these questions, but we hope to make progress in understanding them. ------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS The seven invited speakers at the symposium have all been invited to address issues from the perspective of both phonology and syntax, in one-hour speaking slots. We are now also inviting abstracts for regular (half-hour) talks from anyone else who would like to participate in the symposium. We would welcome abstracts that deal with any aspect of historical syntax or historical phonology, but we especially encourage abstracts that engage in some way with questions like the following: * What are the mechanisms through which change occurs in syntax and/or in phonology? To what extent can the mechanisms of change identified at one linguistic level be generalised to account for change at the other? * What age are the speaker-hearers who lead change? Should we expect the answer to this question to be the same for phonology and syntax? * What is the relative importance of reanalysis and gradual change during a lifespan in linguistic change? * To what extent is change fed by exogenous or endogenous factors? And how do such factors feed into acquisition? Do exogenous and endogenous factors play the same roles in phonological and syntactic change? While the invited speakers have been asked to address the issues from the perspective of both phonology and syntax, we would welcome abstracts for regular talks which focus on either phonology and syntax. ------------------------ ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Please submit abstracts* of up to 400 words (excluding references) via the EasyAbs link below (deadline: 10th August 2022). Submissions will be subjected to a double-blind peer-review process. Please make sure that submitted files (.doc, .pdf, .txt, or .odt) are fully anonymised. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by 29th August 2022. *No more than one individual and one co-authored paper per participant. The EasyAbs abstract submission page for the symposium is here: https://edin.ac/3HJMpr1 The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th? ann an Oilthigh Dh?n ?ideann, cl?raichte an Alba, ?ireamh cl?raidh SC005336. From lauersdorf at uky.edu Sun Jul 24 10:41:28 2022 From: lauersdorf at uky.edu (Lauersdorf, Mark R.) Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2022 14:41:28 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Call for Abstracts - North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics - Fifth Annual Meeting (NARNiHS 2023) Message-ID: ***** Call for Abstracts ***** NARNiHS 2023 ***** North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics ***** Fifth Annual Meeting Despite the recent relaxation of global pandemic travel policies, travel concerns remain for many communities as of the summer of 2022. In light of these concerns, and in response to the positive feedback we have received concerning our recent all-online events, our NARNiHS 2023 Annual Meeting will once again be taking place as a **free, 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. We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars from related fields from our global scholarly community (in addition to North America) to join us online for our Fifth Annual Meeting. ==> Abstract submission deadline: Monday, 19 September 2022, 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 Fifth Annual Meeting (NARNiHS 2023), to take place Wednesday, January 4 - Sunday, January 8, 2023. Since NARNiHS is a Sister Society of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), NARNiHS 2023 will partially overlap with the LSA 2023 Annual Meeting. The NARNiHS 2023 Annual Meeting, however, will be organized independently from the LSA Annual Meeting. ==> Deadline for receipt of abstracts: Monday, 19 September 2022, 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 will be evaluated on the following criteria ***. - explicit discussion of which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued; - sufficient (if brief) presentation of data sources and examples to allow reviewers a clear understanding of the scope and claims of the research; - clear articulation of how the research advances knowledge in the field of historical sociolinguistics. Abstracts should also be anonymized to allow for blind peer review. Failure to adhere to these criteria will increase the likelihood of non-acceptance. *** General Requirements ***. 1) Abstracts must be submitted electronically, using the following link: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/5THnarnihs2023 . 2) Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts: one single-author abstract and one co-authored abstract. 3) 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. 4) Papers must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. 5) Authors are expected to attend the conference and present their own papers. 6) 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. 7) 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 8.5x11 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) Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes it is not possible to attain complete anonymity, but there is a difference between "inability to anonymize completely" (due to the nature of the research) and "careless non-anonymizing" (for example: "In Jones 2021, I describe..."). In addition, be sure to anonymize your PDF file (you may do so in Adobe Acrobat Reader 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 might not be automatically anonymized by the system; do not use your name (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf) when saving your abstract in PDF format, rather, use non-identifying information (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe_NARNiHS.pdf). Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. Papers that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible (whether in the text of the abstract or in the metadata of the digital file) risk being rejected. Contact us at NARNiHistSoc at gmail.com with any questions. 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We realise that you will need to take your masks off to eat and drink, but there are plenty of beautiful spaces outside in the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, and several seating areas where you can take refreshments. Paper - please note that in order to keep registration costs as low as possible and reduce the conference's carbon footprint, we are not producing printed conference packs. All information and resources will be available on the conference website. We are also discouraging paper handouts for the same reason. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Acceptance notifications will be sent?no later than November, 1, 2022. Invited speaker Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) Call for abstracts Argument coding patterns consist of bound markers indicating the semantic and syntactic dependency of the arguments from their verb and are either argument-bound (flagging or dependent-marking) or verb-bound (indexing or head-marking), see Haspelmath (2019). Much scholarly attention has been devoted to the variation in the productivity degrees of the transitive pattern across languages. The semantic core of the verbs that typically assign the transitive coding to their arguments is generally stable across languages (Tsunoda 1985; Haspelmath 2015). This is also true of one-place intransitive verbs. The features that are responsible for both classes are well understood (Hopper & Thompson 1980; Tsunoda 1985; N?ss 2007). Transitive and intransitive verbs are also relatively stable cross-linguistically in terms of their alignment options (ergative, accusative or a mixture of the two). It is nevertheless known that languages significantly differ in their ?transitivity prominence?, that is, in the lexical extent of the transitive class (Haspelmath 2015). By contrast, non-transitive bivalent patterns show much more versatility in coding frames they represent across and within languages. Although language-specific non-transitive bivalent patterns display relatively low type and token frequencies compared to the transitive pattern, collectively, they can be even more frequent than transitive verbs both in the lexicon (type frequency) and in the corpus (token frequency). However, they are often analyzed merely in terms of ?deviations? from the transitive prototype (Kittil? 2011) and, generally speaking, remain quite understudied by typologists and linguists exploring areal phenomena. For example, so far no universal trends have been detected with respect to these patterns. High degrees of both intralinguistic and cross-linguistic versatility of non-transitive bivalent patterns make it difficult to find strong universal trends in this domain. By the same token, this variability accounts for strong local and areal skewings in the cross-linguistic distributions and thus presents an excellent testing ground for various approaches within the variationist paradigm. In particular, non-transitive bivalent patterns lend themselves to exploring various areal pressures and specific contact situations (see the collection of papers in Grossman et al., eds., 2019). However, the difficulty here is to establish a cross-linguistically applicable set of comparative concepts for the non-transitive codings. Various solutions to this problem have been suggested (Say 2014; Bickel et al. 2016; Hartmann et al. 2016; Ser?ant et al., forthc.), but none of them seems to have gained general acceptance to date. Available studies focusing on areality in valency patterns are mainly limited to unearthing contact-induced phenomena in individual languages (Grosmann 2019) or areal effects in medium-size areas (inter alia, Ser?ant 2015a, 2015b; Gaszewski 2020; Widmer et al. 2019), while attempts to trace large-scale effects are generally lacking. We invite contributions that explore variation, language contact and/or areal effects, diachronic changes or typological distribution of argument-coding patterns. The workshop topics include but are not limited to: * methodology of cross-linguistic studies on valency patterns, including ways to identify a tertium comparationis; * calques and other types of PAT-borrowings and their effect on the development of valency patterns in individual languages; * areal effects in the distribution of valency patterns associated with specific verb types, such as, e.g., perception verbs, interaction verbs, pursuit verbs, etc.; * areal distribution of valency patterns in synchrony and/or diachrony; * interaction of genealogical and areal effects in the development of valency patterns; * cross-linguistic corpus-based analysis of valency patterns, their frequency and productivity; * diachronic changes and diachronic (in)stability of the bivalent patterns; * effects of language contact on argument coding in specific languages. References Bickel, Balthasar, Taras Zakharko, Lennart Bierkandt, & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich. 2016. Semantic role clustering: An empirical assessment of semantic role types in non-default case assignment. In Seppo Kittila & Fernando Z??iga (eds.). Advances in research on semantic roles, 51?78. Gaszewski, Jerzy. 2020. Does Verb Valency Pattern Areally in Central Europe? A First Look. In Szucsich, Luka, Agnes Kim, & Uliana Yazhinova (eds.). Areal convergence in Eastern Central European languages and beyond. Berlin et al. Peter Lang, 13?53. Grossman, Eitan. 2019. Language-Specific Transitivities in Contact: The Case of Coptic. Journal of language contact 12 (1). 89-115. Grossman, Eitan, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich & Ilja Ser?ant, eds., 2019. Valency and transitivity in contact: theoretical and empirical issues. Journal of Language Contact 12(1). Special issue. Hartmann, Iren, Martin Haspelmath & Michael Cysouw. 2016. Identifying semantic role clusters and alignment types via microrole coexpression tendencies. In Seppo Kittila & Fernando Z??iga (eds.). Advances in research on semantic roles, 27?49. Haspelmath, Martin. 2015. Transitivity prominence. In Andrej L. Malchukov & Bernard Comrie (eds.), Valency classes in the world?s languages, vol. 1: Introducing the framework, and case studies from Africa and Eurasia (Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics 1/1), 131-147. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton. Haspelmath, Martin. 2019. Indexing and flagging, and head and dependent marking. Te Reo, the Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand 62(1), 93-115. Haspelmath, Martin & Iren Hartmann. 2015. Comparing verbal valency across languages. In Andrej L. Malchukov & Bernard Comrie (eds.), Valency classes in the world?s languages: A comparative handbook, vol. 1, 41?71. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Hopper, Paul J. & Sandra A. Thompson. 1980. Transitivity in Grammar and Discourse. Language 56(2), 251-299. Kittil?, Seppo. 2011. Transitivity typology. In Jae Jung Song (ed.), The Oxford handbook of linguistic typology, 346?367. Oxford: Oxford University Press. N?ss, ?shild. 2007. Prototypical Transitivity (Typological studies in language 72). Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Say, Sergey. 2014. Bivalent Verb Classes in the Languages of Europe. A Quantitative Typological Study, Language Dynamics and Change 4(1), 116?166. Ser?ant, Ilja A. 2015a: Dative experiencer constructions as a Circum-Baltic isogloss. In: P. Arkadiev, A. Holvoet, B. Wiemer (eds.), Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter. 325-348. Ser?ant, Ilja A. 2015b: Independent partitive as a Circum-Baltic isogloss, Journal Language Contact 8, 341-418. Ser?ant, Ilja A., Bj?rn Wiemer, Eleni Bu?arovska, Martina Ivanov?, Maxim Makartsev, Stefan Savi?, Dmitri Sitchinava, Karol?na Skwarska, Mladen Uhlik, Areal and diachronic trends in argument flagging across Slavic. In: Eystein Dahl (ed.), Alignment and Alignment Change in the Indo-European Family. Oxford: OUP. (accepted) Tsunoda, Tasaku. 1985. Remarks on transitivity. Journal of Linguistics 21. 385?396. Widmer, Paul, Stefan Dedio, Lea Gafner, & Barbara Sonnenhauser. 2019. Comparing the multi-faceted morphosyntax of microrole selection. Paper presented at the 13th ALT conference, Pavia. 06.09.2019. Yours sincerely, Organizing team Daria Alfimova (University of Potsdam) Cem Keskin (University of Potsdam) Maxim Makartsev (University of Oldenburg) Sergey S. Say (University of Potsdam) Christoph Schroeder (University of Potsdam) Ilja A. Ser?ant (University of Potsdam) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mark.post at sydney.edu.au Tue Aug 9 19:22:16 2022 From: mark.post at sydney.edu.au (Mark Post) Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2022 23:22:16 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Ethnolinguistic Prehistory of the Eastern Himalaya Message-ID: Dear Listmembers, I would like to draw your attention to a new book Ethnolinguistic Prehistory of the Eastern Himalaya, which may be of interest. 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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. We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars from related fields from our global scholarly community (in addition to North America) to join us online for our Fifth Annual Meeting. ==> Abstract submission deadline: Monday, 19 September 2022, 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 Fifth Annual Meeting (NARNiHS 2023), to take place Wednesday, January 4 - Sunday, January 8, 2023. Since NARNiHS is a Sister Society of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), NARNiHS 2023 will partially overlap with the LSA 2023 Annual Meeting. 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From P.Karatsareas at westminster.ac.uk Thu Sep 22 04:57:34 2022 From: P.Karatsareas at westminster.ac.uk (Petros Karatsareas) Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 08:57:34 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Westminster Forum for Language and Linguistics Research Seminars Message-ID: Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce this year?s Research Seminars of the Westminster Forum for Language and Linguistics. Please find attached this year?s programme, which features talks on a diverse and fascinating range of topics. Seminars will take place on Blackboard Collaborate on even-week Wednesdays at 16:00 (UK time). The first seminar for this year is on 5 October, when Carmen Silvestri (University of Essex) will present a paper on ?Researching multilingualism in the family and in complementary schools: methodological explorations?. All colleagues are welcome to attend via https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/9eded73deaa84c2290b776af78142fda Google Chrome is the recommended browser. 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Dr. Mark Irwin Professor, Yamagata University, Faculty of Literature and Social Sciences, Yamagata-shi, Kojirakawa-machi 1-4-12, Japan 990-8560 e-mail: mark.irwin.1967 at gmail.com www.zaonotes.com Phone/fax: +81 23 6284784 ????????? ????????????? ???????1?4?12 ?990?8560 From daraalfimova at gmail.com Thu Oct 13 10:36:37 2022 From: daraalfimova at gmail.com (Daria Alfimova) Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 16:36:37 +0200 Subject: [Histling-l] Final call for papers, "Explaining the cross-linguistic distribution of argument-coding patterns", Potsdam, March 21-24, 2023 Message-ID: *Explaining the cross-linguistic distribution of argument-coding patterns (EDAP2023)* March 21-24, 2023 University of Potsdam https://sites.google.com/view/edap2023/home Dear colleagues, We welcome abstracts for the conference on *E*xplaining the cross-linguistic *D*istribution of *A*rgument-coding *P*atterns (EDAP2023), which will be held in Potsdam (Potsdam University, Campus Am Neuen Palais) on March 21-24, 2023. Please find the call for abstracts below or visit our website . *Submission guidelines* Abstracts (maximally 1 page plus references and figures) should be submitted to the conference email *orgteampotsdam at gmail.com * by *October 20, 2022*. The language of the conference is English. Acceptance notifications will be sent no later than November 1, 2022. *Invited speaker * Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) *Call for abstracts* Argument coding patterns consist of bound markers indicating the semantic and syntactic dependency of the arguments from their verb and are either argument-bound (flagging or dependent-marking) or verb-bound (indexing or head-marking), see Haspelmath (2019). Much scholarly attention has been devoted to the variation in the productivity degrees of the transitive pattern across languages. The semantic core of the verbs that typically assign the transitive coding to their arguments is generally stable across languages (Tsunoda 1985; Haspelmath 2015). This is also true of one-place intransitive verbs. The features that are responsible for both classes are well understood (Hopper & Thompson 1980; Tsunoda 1985; N?ss 2007). Transitive and intransitive verbs are also relatively stable cross-linguistically in terms of their alignment options (ergative, accusative or a mixture of the two). It is nevertheless known that languages significantly differ in their ?transitivity prominence?, that is, in the lexical extent of the transitive class (Haspelmath 2015). By contrast, non-transitive bivalent patterns show much more versatility in coding frames they represent across and within languages. Although language-specific non-transitive bivalent patterns display relatively low type and token frequencies compared to the transitive pattern, collectively, they can be even more frequent than transitive verbs both in the lexicon (type frequency) and in the corpus (token frequency). However, they are often analyzed merely in terms of ?deviations? from the transitive prototype (Kittil? 2011) and, generally speaking, remain quite understudied by typologists and linguists exploring areal phenomena. For example, so far no universal trends have been detected with respect to these patterns. High degrees of both intralinguistic and cross-linguistic versatility of non-transitive bivalent patterns make it difficult to find strong universal trends in this domain. By the same token, this variability accounts for strong local and areal skewings in the cross-linguistic distributions and thus presents an excellent testing ground for various approaches within the variationist paradigm. In particular, non-transitive bivalent patterns lend themselves to exploring various areal pressures and specific contact situations (see the collection of papers in Grossman et al., eds., 2019). However, the difficulty here is to establish a cross-linguistically applicable set of comparative concepts for the non-transitive codings. Various solutions to this problem have been suggested (Say 2014; Bickel et al. 2016; Hartmann et al. 2016; Ser?ant et al., forthc.), but none of them seems to have gained general acceptance to date. Available studies focusing on areality in valency patterns are mainly limited to unearthing contact-induced phenomena in individual languages (Grosmann 2019) or areal effects in medium-size areas (inter alia, Ser?ant 2015a, 2015b; Gaszewski 2020; Widmer et al. 2019), while attempts to trace large-scale effects are generally lacking. We invite contributions that explore variation, language contact and/or areal effects, diachronic changes or typological distribution of argument-coding patterns. The workshop topics include but are not limited to: - methodology of cross-linguistic studies on valency patterns, including ways to identify a tertium comparationis; - calques and other types of PAT-borrowings and their effect on the development of valency patterns in individual languages; - areal effects in the distribution of valency patterns associated with specific verb types, such as, e.g., perception verbs, interaction verbs, pursuit verbs, etc.; - areal distribution of valency patterns in synchrony and/or diachrony; - interaction of genealogical and areal effects in the development of valency patterns; - cross-linguistic corpus-based analysis of valency patterns, their frequency and productivity; - diachronic changes and diachronic (in)stability of the bivalent patterns; - effects of language contact on argument coding in specific languages. *References * Bickel, Balthasar, Taras Zakharko, Lennart Bierkandt, & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich. 2016. Semantic role clustering: An empirical assessment of semantic role types in non-default case assignment. In Seppo Kittila & Fernando Z??iga (eds.). Advances in research on semantic roles, 51?78. Gaszewski, Jerzy. 2020. Does Verb Valency Pattern Areally in Central Europe? A First Look. In Szucsich, Luka, Agnes Kim, & Uliana Yazhinova (eds.). Areal convergence in Eastern Central European languages and beyond. Berlin et al. Peter Lang, 13?53. Grossman, Eitan. 2019. Language-Specific Transitivities in Contact: The Case of Coptic. Journal of language contact 12 (1). 89-115. Grossman, Eitan, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich & Ilja Ser?ant, eds., 2019. Valency and transitivity in contact: theoretical and empirical issues. Journal of Language Contact 12(1). Special issue. Hartmann, Iren, Martin Haspelmath & Michael Cysouw. 2016. Identifying semantic role clusters and alignment types via microrole coexpression tendencies. In Seppo Kittila & Fernando Z??iga (eds.). Advances in research on semantic roles, 27?49. Haspelmath, Martin. 2015. Transitivity prominence. In Andrej L. Malchukov & Bernard Comrie (eds.), Valency classes in the world?s languages, vol. 1: Introducing the framework, and case studies from Africa and Eurasia (Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics 1/1), 131-147. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton. Haspelmath, Martin. 2019. Indexing and flagging, and head and dependent marking. Te Reo, the Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand 62(1), 93-115. Haspelmath, Martin & Iren Hartmann. 2015. Comparing verbal valency across languages. In Andrej L. Malchukov & Bernard Comrie (eds.), Valency classes in the world?s languages: A comparative handbook, vol. 1, 41?71. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Hopper, Paul J. & Sandra A. Thompson. 1980. Transitivity in Grammar and Discourse. Language 56(2), 251-299. Kittil?, Seppo. 2011. Transitivity typology. In Jae Jung Song (ed.), The Oxford handbook of linguistic typology, 346?367. Oxford: Oxford University Press. N?ss, ?shild. 2007. Prototypical Transitivity (Typological studies in language 72). Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Say, Sergey. 2014. Bivalent Verb Classes in the Languages of Europe. A Quantitative Typological Study, Language Dynamics and Change 4(1), 116?166. Ser?ant, Ilja A. 2015a: Dative experiencer constructions as a Circum-Baltic isogloss. In: P. Arkadiev, A. Holvoet, B. Wiemer (eds.), Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter. 325-348. Ser?ant, Ilja A. 2015b: Independent partitive as a Circum-Baltic isogloss, Journal Language Contact 8, 341-418. Ser?ant, Ilja A., Bj?rn Wiemer, Eleni Bu?arovska, Martina Ivanov?, Maxim Makartsev, Stefan Savi?, Dmitri Sitchinava, Karol?na Skwarska, Mladen Uhlik, Areal and diachronic trends in argument flagging across Slavic. In: Eystein Dahl (ed.), Alignment and Alignment Change in the Indo-European Family. Oxford: OUP. (accepted) Tsunoda, Tasaku. 1985. Remarks on transitivity. Journal of Linguistics 21. 385?396. Widmer, Paul, Stefan Dedio, Lea Gafner, & Barbara Sonnenhauser. 2019. Comparing the multi-faceted morphosyntax of microrole selection. Paper presented at the 13th ALT conference, Pavia. 06.09.2019. Yours sincerely, *Organizing team* Daria Alfimova (University of Potsdam) Cem Keskin (University of Potsdam) Maxim Makartsev (University of Oldenburg) Sergey S. Say (University of Potsdam) Christoph Schroeder (University of Potsdam) Ilja A. Ser?ant (University of Potsdam) -- Daria Alfimova, PhD student Department of Slavonic Studies University of Potsdam Am Neuen Palais 10, Haus 01, 14469 Potsdam https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/slavische-linguistik/team/daria-alfimova -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From daraalfimova at gmail.com Thu Oct 13 10:34:20 2022 From: daraalfimova at gmail.com (Daria Alfimova) Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 16:34:20 +0200 Subject: [Histling-l] Final call for papers, "Explaining the cross-linguistic distribution of argument-coding patterns", Potsdam, March 21-24, 2023 Message-ID: *Explaining the cross-linguistic distribution of argument-coding patterns (EDAP2023)* March 21-24, 2023 University of Potsdam https://sites.google.com/view/edap2023/home Dear colleagues, We welcome abstracts for the conference on *E*xplaining the cross-linguistic *D*istribution of *A*rgument-coding *P*atterns (EDAP2023), which will be held in Potsdam (Potsdam University, Campus Am Neuen Palais) on March 21-24, 2023. Please find the call for abstracts below or visit our website . *Submission guidelines* Abstracts (maximally 1 page plus references and figures) should be submitted to the conference email *orgteampotsdam at gmail.com * by *October 20, 2022*. The language of the conference is English. Acceptance notifications will be sent no later than November 1, 2022. *Invited speaker * Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) *Call for abstracts* Argument coding patterns consist of bound markers indicating the semantic and syntactic dependency of the arguments from their verb and are either argument-bound (flagging or dependent-marking) or verb-bound (indexing or head-marking), see Haspelmath (2019). Much scholarly attention has been devoted to the variation in the productivity degrees of the transitive pattern across languages. The semantic core of the verbs that typically assign the transitive coding to their arguments is generally stable across languages (Tsunoda 1985; Haspelmath 2015). This is also true of one-place intransitive verbs. The features that are responsible for both classes are well understood (Hopper & Thompson 1980; Tsunoda 1985; N?ss 2007). Transitive and intransitive verbs are also relatively stable cross-linguistically in terms of their alignment options (ergative, accusative or a mixture of the two). It is nevertheless known that languages significantly differ in their ?transitivity prominence?, that is, in the lexical extent of the transitive class (Haspelmath 2015). By contrast, non-transitive bivalent patterns show much more versatility in coding frames they represent across and within languages. Although language-specific non-transitive bivalent patterns display relatively low type and token frequencies compared to the transitive pattern, collectively, they can be even more frequent than transitive verbs both in the lexicon (type frequency) and in the corpus (token frequency). However, they are often analyzed merely in terms of ?deviations? from the transitive prototype (Kittil? 2011) and, generally speaking, remain quite understudied by typologists and linguists exploring areal phenomena. For example, so far no universal trends have been detected with respect to these patterns. High degrees of both intralinguistic and cross-linguistic versatility of non-transitive bivalent patterns make it difficult to find strong universal trends in this domain. By the same token, this variability accounts for strong local and areal skewings in the cross-linguistic distributions and thus presents an excellent testing ground for various approaches within the variationist paradigm. In particular, non-transitive bivalent patterns lend themselves to exploring various areal pressures and specific contact situations (see the collection of papers in Grossman et al., eds., 2019). However, the difficulty here is to establish a cross-linguistically applicable set of comparative concepts for the non-transitive codings. Various solutions to this problem have been suggested (Say 2014; Bickel et al. 2016; Hartmann et al. 2016; Ser?ant et al., forthc.), but none of them seems to have gained general acceptance to date. Available studies focusing on areality in valency patterns are mainly limited to unearthing contact-induced phenomena in individual languages (Grosmann 2019) or areal effects in medium-size areas (inter alia, Ser?ant 2015a, 2015b; Gaszewski 2020; Widmer et al. 2019), while attempts to trace large-scale effects are generally lacking. We invite contributions that explore variation, language contact and/or areal effects, diachronic changes or typological distribution of argument-coding patterns. The workshop topics include but are not limited to: - methodology of cross-linguistic studies on valency patterns, including ways to identify a tertium comparationis; - calques and other types of PAT-borrowings and their effect on the development of valency patterns in individual languages; - areal effects in the distribution of valency patterns associated with specific verb types, such as, e.g., perception verbs, interaction verbs, pursuit verbs, etc.; - areal distribution of valency patterns in synchrony and/or diachrony; - interaction of genealogical and areal effects in the development of valency patterns; - cross-linguistic corpus-based analysis of valency patterns, their frequency and productivity; - diachronic changes and diachronic (in)stability of the bivalent patterns; - effects of language contact on argument coding in specific languages. *References * Bickel, Balthasar, Taras Zakharko, Lennart Bierkandt, & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich. 2016. Semantic role clustering: An empirical assessment of semantic role types in non-default case assignment. In Seppo Kittila & Fernando Z??iga (eds.). Advances in research on semantic roles, 51?78. Gaszewski, Jerzy. 2020. Does Verb Valency Pattern Areally in Central Europe? A First Look. In Szucsich, Luka, Agnes Kim, & Uliana Yazhinova (eds.). Areal convergence in Eastern Central European languages and beyond. Berlin et al. Peter Lang, 13?53. Grossman, Eitan. 2019. Language-Specific Transitivities in Contact: The Case of Coptic. Journal of language contact 12 (1). 89-115. Grossman, Eitan, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich & Ilja Ser?ant, eds., 2019. Valency and transitivity in contact: theoretical and empirical issues. Journal of Language Contact 12(1). Special issue. Hartmann, Iren, Martin Haspelmath & Michael Cysouw. 2016. Identifying semantic role clusters and alignment types via microrole coexpression tendencies. In Seppo Kittila & Fernando Z??iga (eds.). Advances in research on semantic roles, 27?49. Haspelmath, Martin. 2015. Transitivity prominence. In Andrej L. Malchukov & Bernard Comrie (eds.), Valency classes in the world?s languages, vol. 1: Introducing the framework, and case studies from Africa and Eurasia (Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics 1/1), 131-147. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton. Haspelmath, Martin. 2019. Indexing and flagging, and head and dependent marking. Te Reo, the Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand 62(1), 93-115. Haspelmath, Martin & Iren Hartmann. 2015. Comparing verbal valency across languages. In Andrej L. Malchukov & Bernard Comrie (eds.), Valency classes in the world?s languages: A comparative handbook, vol. 1, 41?71. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Hopper, Paul J. & Sandra A. Thompson. 1980. Transitivity in Grammar and Discourse. Language 56(2), 251-299. Kittil?, Seppo. 2011. Transitivity typology. In Jae Jung Song (ed.), The Oxford handbook of linguistic typology, 346?367. Oxford: Oxford University Press. N?ss, ?shild. 2007. Prototypical Transitivity (Typological studies in language 72). Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Say, Sergey. 2014. Bivalent Verb Classes in the Languages of Europe. A Quantitative Typological Study, Language Dynamics and Change 4(1), 116?166. Ser?ant, Ilja A. 2015a: Dative experiencer constructions as a Circum-Baltic isogloss. In: P. Arkadiev, A. Holvoet, B. Wiemer (eds.), Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter. 325-348. Ser?ant, Ilja A. 2015b: Independent partitive as a Circum-Baltic isogloss, Journal Language Contact 8, 341-418. Ser?ant, Ilja A., Bj?rn Wiemer, Eleni Bu?arovska, Martina Ivanov?, Maxim Makartsev, Stefan Savi?, Dmitri Sitchinava, Karol?na Skwarska, Mladen Uhlik, Areal and diachronic trends in argument flagging across Slavic. In: Eystein Dahl (ed.), Alignment and Alignment Change in the Indo-European Family. Oxford: OUP. (accepted) Tsunoda, Tasaku. 1985. Remarks on transitivity. Journal of Linguistics 21. 385?396. Widmer, Paul, Stefan Dedio, Lea Gafner, & Barbara Sonnenhauser. 2019. Comparing the multi-faceted morphosyntax of microrole selection. Paper presented at the 13th ALT conference, Pavia. 06.09.2019. Yours sincerely, *Organizing team* Daria Alfimova (University of Potsdam) Cem Keskin (University of Potsdam) Maxim Makartsev (University of Oldenburg) Sergey S. Say (University of Potsdam) Christoph Schroeder (University of Potsdam) Ilja A. Ser?ant (University of Potsdam) -- Daria Alfimova, PhD student Department of Slavonic Studies University of Potsdam Am Neuen Palais 10, Haus 01, 14469 Potsdam https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/slavische-linguistik/team/daria-alfimova -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We invite presentations by PhD-students and Early PostDocs. The talks may deal with North, East, or West Germanic languages. Preference is given to presentations on the earliest Germanic languages with a historical-comparative methodology. A poster session is planned for advanced MA students. The program is rounded off with a half-day manuscript excursion. Those interested in presentations and posters are asked to contact < vgs-nachwuchstagung at ds.uzh.ch> by December 31, 2022. Please provide a provisional title of your presentation. Talks may be presented in either German or English. Financial support for travel and accommodation has been budgeted for foreign speakers, but is still dependent on approval of funding. 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URL: From julie.kinsella at yale.edu Thu Oct 27 13:17:28 2022 From: julie.kinsella at yale.edu (Kinsella, Julie) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 17:17:28 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Lecturer, Historical Linguistics Message-ID: The Department of Linguistics at Yale University is looking to hire a multi-year Lecturer in Historical Linguistics, with an initial 3-year appointment, beginning July 1, 2023, and the possibility of renewal for a second 3-year term. The Lecturer will offer introductory and advanced courses and advise student research in historical linguistics/language change at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The teaching expectation is normally 4 courses per academic year, plus advising responsibilities. The focus of the courses would be historical linguistics/language change, but the Lecturer will also offer other courses that help us meet the needs of our curriculum, which will be determined based on their areas of expertise. The position is open to any specialization within historical linguistics. We particularly welcome applications from people whose work focuses on sound change, Indigenous or endangered languages, and/or quantitative approaches to language change. Qualifications The appointee must hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree or have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. by the time of hire. Application Instructions: Applicants should submit an application through Interfolio at this link: http://apply.interfolio.com/115833. Applications should include the following materials: 1. a cover letter 2. a current CV 3. a teaching statement describing the candidate's perspective on teaching and mentoring, including their views and experiences relevant to teaching students from a range of backgrounds 4. a research statement 5. three representative pieces of research 6. the names and email addresses of three referees 7. evidence of teaching and advising excellence, such as syllabi or course evaluations Timeline: To ensure full consideration, applications should be submitted by December 2, 2022. Review of applications will begin shortly thereafter. Later applications may be considered until the position is filled. Contact information: * for information about the position: Claire Bowern, Search Committee Chair (email address: claire.bowern at yale.edu) * for application assistance: Julie Kinsella, Sr Administrative Assistant (email address: julie.kinsella at yale.edu) Equal Employment Opportunity Statement Yale University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. Yale values diversity among its students, staff, and faculty and strongly welcomes applications from women, persons with disabilities, protected veterans, and underrepresented minorities. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andres.enrique at uib.es Mon Nov 7 12:07:56 2022 From: andres.enrique at uib.es (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9s_Enrique?=) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2022 18:07:56 +0100 Subject: [Histling-l] On the spatial diffusion of linguistic changes. Workshop proposal for SLE 2023 Message-ID: <000001d8f2cb$7d0f57b0$772e0710$@uib.es> Workshop proposal for the SLE-2023: On the spatial diffusion of linguistic changes: new methods and theoretical perspectives. Andres Enrique-Arias (University of the Balearic Islands), Carlota de Benito Moreno (University of Zurich), Florencio del Barrio de la Rosa (Ca? Foscari University of Venice) As part of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (29 August ? 1 September, Athens) we invite submissions with original research that deals with the at the interplay between geographical variation and diachrony: * Methodological approaches that allow for the simultaneous examination of the spatial distribution of several variables (as opposed to the isolated study of single variables). * Studies addressing clustered phenomena that might hint at joint evolutions, or chain shifts. * Investigations that integrate the role of both physical and political space through history. * Studies that aim to restore the balance between all levels of analysis (including the lexical and discourse components), as opposed to traditional approaches that privileged phonetic variables. * Methodological approaches that address the interplay between register and geographical variation in the study of diachronic change. * Methodological approaches and visualization techniques that integrate frequency of use in the study of geographical variation through history, as opposed to categorical data (presence vs. absence of a variant). * Studies based on synchronic data (e.g. from online social networks) that can shed light onto historical processes. Researchers interested in participating in the workshop are invited to send a short provisional abstract of max. 300 words by 13 November 2022 to spatialdiffusionSLE23 at gmail.com. By 20 November 2022 the workshop proposal must be sent to the SLE organizing committee. Note that, after the acceptance of the workshop as such, participants will still have to submit a revised 500-word abstract according to the SLE guidelines to be reviewed anonymously by 15 January 2023. For further information please refer to https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2023/second-call-for-papers/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Benjamin.Molineaux at ed.ac.uk Wed Nov 9 11:15:56 2022 From: Benjamin.Molineaux at ed.ac.uk (Ben Molineaux Ress) Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2022 16:15:56 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Registration for 3rd AMC Symposium NOW OPEN Message-ID: <33DF601F-D3EB-452C-BED2-F52B934F8C0E@ed.ac.uk> Apologies for cross-posting. We?re delighted to announce that registration is now open for the Third AMC Symposium. Event: Third AMC Symposium Theme: Change in syntax and phonology: the same or different? Dates of the Symposium: 5-7 December 2022 Location: The University of Edinburgh Further details: http://www.amc.lel.ed.ac.uk/amc-symposium/third-amc-symposium-2022/ Deadline for registration: 30th November 2022 (It would be helpful for us if you could register soon, though!) Questions to: amc-sympo at mlist.is.ed.ac.uk We hope to welcome many of you to Edinburgh in about a month! Ben (on behalf of the organisers: Patrick Honeybone and Bettelou Los) ----- Benjamin Molineaux Secretary, The Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. 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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 our global scholarly community (in addition to North America), to join us online for our Research Incubator this spring. ==> Abstract submission deadline: 19 December 2022, 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern Time). ==> Abstract submission online: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/NARNiHS2023_RI . The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its 2023 NARNiHS Research Incubator. Building on the great success of the first four years, the 5th edition of this unique 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. Presenters will have the entire 25 minutes for their presentations, with discussion happening in the "incubation session" at the end of each panel. Abstracts should be no more than one page in length (not including examples and references, see below). Abstracts will be accepted until 19 December 2022 -- late abstracts will not be considered. Successful abstracts will 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. Failure to adhere to these criteria will likely result in non-acceptance. 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. *** General Requirements ***: 1) Abstracts must be submitted electronically, using the following link: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/NARNiHS2023_RI . 2) Papers must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. 3) Authors are expected to virtually attend the conference and present their own papers. 4) Presentations will be delivered via a video-conferencing platform, most likely Zoom. Technical details and instructions regarding the platform for our NARNiHS Research Incubator will be sent to authors in due time. *** Content Requirements ***: 1) Abstracts should be explicit about which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued. 2) 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. 3) The connection of your research to the field of historical sociolinguistics should be explicitly outlined. *** 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 (1) additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed. 3) Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes it is not possible to attain complete anonymity, but there is a difference between "inability to anonymize completely" (due to the nature of the research) and "careless non-anonymizing" (for example: "In Jones 2021, I describe..."). In addition, be sure to anonymize your PDF file (you may do so in Adobe Acrobat Reader 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 might not be automatically anonymized by the system; do not use your name (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf) when saving your abstract in PDF format, rather, use non-identifying information (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe_NARNiHS.pdf). Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. Papers that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible (whether in the text of the abstract or in the metadata of the digital file) risk being rejected. Please contact us at NARNiHistSoc at gmail.com with any questions. From P.Karatsareas at westminster.ac.uk Mon Nov 14 03:46:51 2022 From: P.Karatsareas at westminster.ac.uk (Petros Karatsareas) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 08:46:51 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Morphological simplification in the late Northumbrian dialect: the case of weak verbs class II Message-ID: ?Dear all, You are cordially invited to this week?s Research Seminar of the Westminster Forum for Language and Linguistics on Wednesday 16 November at 16:00 (UK) on Blackboard Collaborate https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/9eded73deaa84c2290b776af78142fda Elisa Ram?rez P?rez (Leiden University) will present a paper entitled ?Morphological simplification in the late Northumbrian dialect: the case of weak verbs class II? (abstract below). If you have technical difficulties before or during seminars, log into https://meet.google.com/mfg-upoq-vwv, and someone will be there to help. The seminar is open to all. We look forward to seeing you there! With best wishes, Petros Morphological simplification in the late Northumbrian dialect: the case of weak verbs class II My paper will present the results of my doctoral thesis concerning the state of the second class of Old English weak verbs in the Northumbrian glosses to the Lindisfarne Gospels. In particular, my paper will examine the ultimate deletion of these verbs? characteristic stem formative vowel, namely the -i- formative. Although the loss of this medial vowel is generally considered to be a Middle English characteristic (Lass, 2006: 127-128; Thomason and Kaufman 1988: 293), the evidence presented in this paper will point towards an earlier and geographically-specific start to this simplification process, since it will be seen that the late Northumbrian glosses to the Lindisfarne Gospels display a rather advanced stage of -i- deletion, especially when compared to more Southern texts, as exemplified by data from the Old Mercian glosses to the Rushworth Gospels. The early loss of the -i- formative in weak verbs class II as evidenced in the Northumbrian dialect is one of the many striking linguistic features proper to this variety. This morphological development, in fact, tallies with this dialect?s advanced state of linguistic simplification and, in turn, innovation (Jones 1939; Cole 2014; Millar 2016). It is worth noting that the study of English historical linguistics has traditionally been based on the late West-Saxon dialect, a fact which is not surprising given that the vast majority of extant Old English texts are written in this variety. However, there has been a shift in the scholarly approach to English historical linguistics in recent years whereby less represented varieties of Old English are being studied in an attempt to offer a more comprehensive and dialect-inclusive account of the history of early English. My paper, therefore, attempts to contribute and add to the body of work focusing on broadening the spectrum of Old English dialectology. ?? 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Understanding analogy is crucial to understanding both how our languages came to be the way they are ? i.e. the pathways of change underpinning individual language systems ? and why, since analogical change reveals the assumptions and biases of human beings learning from incomplete and sometimes self-contradictory language data. The recipient of this studentship will contribute to a multidisciplinary project using innovative computational and statistical techniques to produce a predictive model of analogy, a missing puzzle piece in a complete theory of language change. The student will be responsible for conducting a case study into morphological change in the history of a specific language. They will design their own project using the dataset they have collected, developing research questions and hypotheses relating to the theme of analogy in morphological change. Relevant topics for investigation could include (but are not limited to) questions such as: What effect do sociolinguistic conditions (e.g. language contact, adult learning, language death/attrition) have on the range of possibilities for analogical extension? Are there any morphosyntactic or lexical constraints on syncretism that reveal themselves diachronically? Under what circumstances is inflectional overabundance (meaningless variation in forms within paradigms) stable or unstable over time? The studentship is part of the project Predicting language evolution: Analogy in morphological change, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. The student will be supervised by Dr Helen Sims-Williams, Professor Matthew Baerman, and Dr Oliver Bond, and will work and receive training in the vibrant research environment of the Surrey Morphology Group, alongside leading researchers on inflectional morphology. 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All the best, Guglielmo Inglese *Workshop Website* https://sites.google.com/view/diatypantc2023/home-page *Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Anticausativization* The (anti)causative alternation is a transitivity alternation concerned with how languages express externally caused (CAUSAL) vs. spontaneously occurring (NONCAUSAL) events. Typologists have shown that languages resort to three main coding patterns to express such alternations (see Tubino-Blanco 2020): (i) CAUSATIVE: the causal member is overtly marked, Turkish ?l- ?die? vs. ?l-d?r- ?kill? (ii) ANTICAUSATIVE: the noncausal member is marked, Italian scioglier-si ?melt (intr.)? vs. sciogliere ?melt (tr.)? (iii) EQUIPOLLENT: both members are equally marked, Yaqui (Uto-Aztecan) bee-te ?burn (intr.)? vs. bee-ta ?burn (tr.)? Despite the structural parallelism, it has been pointed out that causative and anticausative markers (AMs) show a cross-linguistically unbalanced distribution. Not only are AMs typologically less frequent than causatives, but it is also rare for AMs to outnumber causatives in the lexicon of individual languages (Nichols et al. 2004). In fact, the very existence of the anticausative pattern, in which the semantically simpler member of the alternation receives a morphologically more complex marking, constitutes a puzzle, as it violates the iconicity principle (Haspelmath 2016: 593). Nevertheless AMs do exist, and, strikingly, they appear to be a relatively stable linguistic trait over time (e.g., Wichmann 2015). Within individual languages, the distribution of AMs is not random, as some verbs trigger AMs more frequently than others. To explain these distributions, scholars have resorted to either verb semantics or frequency effects. Semantics-based accounts appeal to notions such as spontaneity (Haspelmath 1987) and claim that verbs lexicalizing events less likely to occur spontaneously are more likely to trigger AMs, because higher cognitive markedness entails higher structural markedness (Haspelmath 1993: 106). Frequency-based approaches explain marking asymmetries as mirroring frequency asymmetries, based on the assumption that higher usage frequency items are more predictable and thus favor shorter coding (Haspelmath 2021). This means that verbs that more routinely occur in noncausal contexts are less likely to receive AMs (Haspelmath et al. 2014). Overall, despite the wealth of (mostly synchronically oriented) existing research, the fundamental question as to why anticausatives exist remains open. To understand why anticausativization exists, one must explore how AMs arise in the first place, at least along two lines: (i) what are the historical sources of AMs across languages and (ii) how do AMs historically spread through the verbal lexicon of individual languages. Concerning (i), typological works mention only two such sources, reflexives and passives (e.g., Z??iga & Kittil? 2019: 233), but this seems reductive, as there is evidence for alternative developments (Bahrt 2021; Inglese 2022). Concerning (ii), even in languages with ample historical documentation, as e.g., Romance languages, we still lack a detailed understanding of how AMs spread across time and, in particular, whether the lexical spread of AMs follows proposed generalizations on the distribution of AMs with particular verb classes, such as the spontaneity scale proposed by Haspelmath (2016) shown in (1). (1) TRANSITIVE ?cut? > UNERGATIVE ?talk? > AUTOMATIC UNACCUSATIVE ?melt? > COSTLY UNACCUSATIVE ?break? > AGENTFUL ?be cut? *Call for papers* Taking stock of these premises, the goal of this workshop is to offer a venue for scholars interested in typology and historical linguistics to develop a new diachronically oriented approach to the study of AMs. The workshop will be held at the *University of Torino* (Italy) on the *9th November 2023, *and is organized within the project *Historical and typological perspectives on anticausativization*, funded by the University of Torino and carried out in collaboration with KU Leuven. We welcome contribution addressing (among others) the following topics: ? description of anticausativization (including equipollent) patterns in previously undescribed languages; ? sources and grammaticalization of AMs in individual languages/language families; ? the role of contact and areal convergence in the emergence of AMs; ? detailed historical corpus studies on the distribution of AMs; ? lexical restrictions in the distribution of AMs with specific verb classes and their historical motivation; ? cross-linguistic corpus-based analyses of the distribution of AMs, their frequency and productivity; ? diachronic stability of AMs within individual languages and families; ? loss of AMs. *Submission guidelines* Abstracts should be maximum 1 page long (+ 1 page for data and references), and should be submitted by *email* to guglielmo.inglese at unito.it by *31 March 2023*. Acceptance notifications will be sent no later than 30 April 2023. Please check the workshop?s website for further information. *Invited Speaker* Johanna Nichols (HSE & University of California, Berkeley) *Scientific Committee* Bert Cornillie, Lorenzo Ferrarotti, Eugenio Goria, Guglielmo Inglese, Giulia Mazzola, Ellison Luk, Davide Ricca, Mario Squartini, Jean-Christophe Verstraete *References* Bahrt, Nicklas N. 2021. Voice syncretism. Berlin: Language Science Press. Haspelmath, Martin. 1987. Transitivity alternations of the anticausative type. K?ln: Institut f?r Sprachwissenschaft. Haspelmath, Martin. 1993. More on the typology of the inchoative/causative verb alternations. In Bernard Comrie & Maria Polinsky (eds.), Causatives and Transitivity, 87?120. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Haspelmath, Martin. 2016. Universals of causative and anticausative verb formation and the spontaneity scale. Lingua Posnaniensis 58(2). 33?63. Haspelmath, Martin. 2021. Explaining grammatical coding asymmetries: Form?frequency correspondences and predictability. Journal of Linguistics 57(3). 605?633. Haspelmath, Martin, Andreea Calude, Michael Spagnol, Heiko Narrog & Eli?f Bamyaci. 2014. Coding causal?noncausal verb alternations: A form?frequency correspondence explanation. Journal of Linguistics 50(3). 587?625. Inglese, Guglielmo. 2022. Cross-linguistic sources of anticausative markers. Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads. Nichols, Johanna, David A. Peterson & Jonathan Barnes. 2004. Transitivizing and detransitivizing languages. Linguistic Typology 8(2). 149?211. Tubino-Blanco, Mercedes. 2020. Causative-Inchoative in Morphology. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Wichmann, S?ren. 2015. Diachronic stability and typology. In Claire Bowern & Bethwyn Evans (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics, 212?224. London & New York: Routledge. Z??iga, Fernando & Seppo Kittil?. 2019. Grammatical Voice. 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The forgotten richness of macrosociolinguistic debates on language shift and maintenance? ? Salikoko S. Mufwene (University of Chicago) ?The role of population structure in language change? The call for papers is open and we are now inviting submissions: ==> Full call for papers and all relevant info:?https://www.historicalsociolinguistics.be/hison-2023/ ==> Abstract submission:?https://www.conftool.pro/hison2023/ ==> Deadline: 20 January 2023 We welcome submissions for: ? individual presentations, ? poster presentations, and ? thematic panels, round tables or workshops. We hope to welcome all of you in Brussels in May! Yasmin Crombez, Wim Vandenbussche, Julie Van Ongeval & Rik Vosters Conference organizers ? Prof. dr. Rik Vosters Linguistics and Literary Studies Vrije Universiteit Brussel Rik.Vosters at vub.be http://www.rikvosters.be/ http://www.historicalsociolinguistics.be/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Further details are below, and the registration link is here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/historical-work-with-unwritten-languages-early-career-research-panel-tickets-471050463617 All the best, Laura Arnold ========= Historical work with unwritten languages (Early Career Research Panel, The Philological Society) In this panel, we address the question: is the study of change in languages with little or no historical record fundamentally different from similar work on languages with a lengthy written tradition? To this day, there remains a close association between historical linguistics and Indo-European, in part due to the wealth of written sources which scholars can use in historical research on the family. For some, this goes as far as an assumption?often implicit?that historical work based primarily on spoken data is less reliable, accurate, or viable than that based on written sources. These attitudes persist, despite the venerable and successful tradition of historical work on languages without a written record?some of which in fact predates Sir William Jones's famous 'common source' discourse in 1786, heralded as the beginning of Indo-European studies. In response to this, three ECR researchers share their experiences of using primary spoken data collected in the field to investigate language change, bringing their research perspectives to bear on methodological, conceptual, and experiential issues in historical work with unwritten languages. This will be followed by a plenary discussion, using the following questions as a springboard: - To what extent are the principles and methodologies used in historical work on languages with and without a lengthy written record the same? How do they differ? - What particular challenges arise when investigating change in languages without a historical record? What are the advantages? - Are historical records always helpful when investigating language change? - What are the best practices when integrating data from historical records with spoken data? Speakers: - Ryan Gehrmann (Payap University) ? 'Tonogenesis in Mainland Southeast Asia: Reconciling the historical evidence and the comparative evidence' - Tatiana Reid (University of Edinburgh) ? 'Untangling the origins of floating suprasegmental component in Nuer' - Laura Arnold (University of Edinburgh ? 'From areal linguistics to historical sociolinguistics: Identifying contact events in northwest New Guinea' Chair: - Ricardo Napole?o de Souza (University of Edinburgh). --------- Laura Arnold ? British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow/Teaching Fellow laura-arnold.org Room 1.03, Dugald Stewart Building Department of Linguistics and English Language University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. 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Just in case anyone might be in need of this, in addition to the web-based one that Suzanne suggested, there's also: https://ironcreek.net/phpsyntaxtree.legacy/? http://mshang.ca/syntree/ https://yohasebe.com/rsyntaxtree/ And then there's a local program: https://sourceforge.net/projects/treeform/ Many thanks, Amy West -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From g.j.rutten at hum.leidenuniv.nl Tue Dec 6 04:07:52 2022 From: g.j.rutten at hum.leidenuniv.nl (Rutten, G.J. (Gijsbert)) Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2022 09:07:52 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Historical Sociolinguistics Young Researchers Forum 2023 Message-ID: HSYRF is back! The Historical Sociolinguistics Young Researchers Forum 2023 will take place in Leiden on 31 March and 1 April 2023. 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W1: Climate change and language change (Martine Robbeets) robbeets at shh.mpg.de W2: Macro-level social motivations for language change: Contact, migration, and globalization (Bridget Drinka, Gijsbert Rutten and Terttu Nevalainen) bridget.drinka at utsa.edu W3: Computational models of diachronic language change (Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Lauren Fonteyn, Marie-Pauline Krielke and Elke Teich) s.degaetano at mx.uni-saarland.de W4: Ambiguity (avoidance) as a factor in language change (Eva Zehentner and Ilaria De Cesare) eva.zehentner at es.uzh.ch W5: Conceptual metaphors in a comparative and diachronic perspective (Daniel K?lligan) daniel.koelligan at uni-wuerzburg.de W6: Categorizers in diachrony (Laura Grestenberger) laura.grestenberger at oeaw.ac.at W7: Interactions at the dawn of history: Methods and results in prehistoric contact linguistics (Marwan Kilani and Rasmus Bj?rn) marwan.kilani at unibas.ch W8: Filling in the diachronic gaps: The view of Old Iranian from the present (Shuan Karim and Saloumeh Gholami) karim.56 at osu.edu W9: ?Your birch-bark bag has something? ? Grammaticalization and diachrony of locative, existential and possessive predications (Chris Lasse D?britz) chris.lasse.daebritz at uni-hamburg.de W10: The (pre)history of the languages of Japan ? Current issues and prospects (?tienne Baudel, Aleksandra Jarosz and Georg Orlandi) etienne.baudel at gmail.com W11: The diachrony of tone ? Connecting the field (Sandra Auderset, Rikker Dockum and Ryan Gehrmann) sandra_auderset at eva.mpg.de W12: From and towards demonstratives: Grammaticalization processes and beyond (Veronica Orqueda and Berta Gonz?lez Saavedra) vorqueda at uc.cl W13: New methods for old languages: The comparability of data (Alessia Cassar?, Lena Kaltenbach, Mariapaola Piccione and Tara Struik) alessia.cassara at ling.uni-stuttgart.de W14: Exploiting standardized cross-linguistic data in historical linguistics (Johann-Mattis List) mattis.list at lingpy.org W15: Using secondary dialect data for reconstruction: Methodological considerations for Arabic (Maris Camilleri and Uri Horesh) URIH at live.achva.ac.il Jadranka Gvozdanovic, chair of ICHL26 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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See the call for papers below for more details. Yours sincerely, Barthe Bloom Call for papers Characteristic of narratives is the double-layered nature of the structure, with on the one hand the descriptive content and on the other hand the representation of the content (Chatman 1980), and thus lends itself well for shifting viewpoints (Dancygier & Sweetser 2012). This is particularly interesting as perspective taking interacts with the use of tense and aspect (Fleischmann 1985, Sanders & Van Krieken 2019), but also with the use of complement clauses (Verhagen 2005) and the position and integration of adverbial clauses (Csipak 2019). Narratives may be structured around the temporal sequence of events or centered on topics, which is reflected in the grammatical devices used to link elements to previous discourse and continue the narration (Carroll, Von Stutterheim & Nuese 2004). Consequently, a change in narrative structure should be correlated with changes in the use and productivity of grammatical patterns. Think for example of the changes and variation regarding the realization of the preverbal slot(s) in declarative sentences (Axel 2004, Frey 2005, Bohnacker & Ros?n 2007, Bech & Salvesen 2012, Walkden 2017, Larsson & Kinn 2022) or regarding the position of the finite verb (Hinterh?lzl & Petrova 2010, Los 2012, Demske 2018, Booth & Beck 2021). How and to which degree changes in grammatical patterns correlate or are affected by changes in discourse and narrative structure, how the two layers interact with each other and affect each other, and how such issues can be operationalized are still understudied. Therefore, we invite papers that deal with such issues. Invited speakers Jordan Chark, ZAS Berlin Anna Cichosz, ??d? Bettelou Los, Edinburgh Pierre-Yves Modicom, Lyon Sonja Zeman, Augsburg Submission guidelines Abstracts of max. 400 words (excl. references) should be emailed as a PDF-file to DiNa.DiaGer at gmail.com by Jan. 30th, 2023. Notification of acceptance will be provided by Feb. 27th, 2023. Please indicate whether you would be interested in contributing a full paper. Further information on the volume will follow upon acceptance or by request. References Axel, K. 2004. ?The Syntactic Integration of Preposed Adverbial Clauses on the German Left Periphery: A Diachronic Perspective.? In The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery, ed. by H. Lohnstein & S. Trissler, 23?58. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. Bohnacker, U. & C. Ros?n. 2007. ?How to Start a V2 Declarative Clause: Transfer of Syntax vs. Information Structure in L2 German.? Nordlyd 34 (3): 29?56. Booth, H., and C. Beck. 2021. ?Verb-Second and Verb-First in the History of Icelandic.? Journal of Historical Syntax 5 (28): 1?53. Carroll, M., C. Von Stutterheim & R. Nuese. 2011. ?The Language and Thought Debate: A Psycholinguistic Approach.? Multidisciplinary Approaches to Language Production, 183?218. Chatman, S. 1978. Story and Discourse. Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Csipak, E. 2019. ?Adverbial Clauses and V3.? Linguistics Vanguard 5: 1?11. Demske, U. 2018. ?Syntax and Discourse Structure: Verb-Final Main Clauses in German.? Linguistische Berichte 25: 135?59. Fleischman, S. 1985. ?Discourse Functions of Tense-Aspect Oppositions in Narrative: Toward a Theory of Grounding.? Linguistics 23 (6): 851?82. Hinterh?lzl, R. & S. Petrova. 2010. ?From V1 to V2 in West Germanic.? Lingua 120 (2): 315?28. Larsson, I. & K. Kinn, 2022. ?Stability and Change in the C-Domain in American Swedish.? Languages 7 (4): 256. Los, B. 2012. ?The Loss of Verb-Second and the Switch from Bounded to Unbounded Systems.? In Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English, ed. by A. Meurman-Solin, M. J. L?pez-Couso & B. Los, 21?46. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Sanders, J. & K. Van Krieken. 2019. ?Traveling through Narrative Time: How Tense and Temporal Deixis Guide the Representation of Time and Viewpoint in News Narratives.? Cognitive Linguistics 30 (2): 281?304. Verhagen, A. 2005. Constructions of Intersubjectivity. Discourse, Syntax, and Cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Walkden, G. 2017. ?Language Contact and V3 in Germanic Varieties New and Old.? Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 20 (1): 48-81. From lauersdorf at uky.edu Tue Dec 13 16:49:33 2022 From: lauersdorf at uky.edu (Lauersdorf, Mark R.) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 21:49:33 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] 2nd Call for Abstracts (Extended Deadline) - 2023 NARNiHS Research Incubator Message-ID: *** *Second* Call for Abstracts and Extended Deadline *** 2023 NARNiHS Research Incubator *** North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics *** 5th edition 20-22 April 2023 - entirely online! The 2023 NARNiHS Research Incubator will take place as an entirely online event (with free registration). 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 our global scholarly community (in addition to North America), to join us online for our Research Incubator this spring. ==> NEW Abstract submission deadline: ==> 15 January 2023, 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern Time). ==> Abstract submission online: ==> http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/NARNiHS2023_RI?. The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its 2023 NARNiHS Research Incubator. Building on the great success of the first four years, the 5th edition of this unique 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. Presenters will have the entire 25 minutes for their presentations, with discussion happening in the "incubation session" at the end of each panel. Abstracts should be no more than one page (not including examples and references, see below). Abstracts will be accepted until 19 December 2022 - late abstracts will not be considered. Successful abstracts will 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. Failure to adhere to these criteria will likely result in non-acceptance. 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. General Requirements: 1) Abstracts must be submitted electronically, using the following link: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/NARNiHS2023_RI? 2) Papers must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. 3) Authors are expected to virtually attend the conference and present their own papers. 4) Presentations will be delivered via a video-conferencing platform, most likely Zoom. Technical details and instructions regarding the platform for our NARNiHS Research Incubator will be sent to authors in due time. Content Requirements: 1) Abstracts should be explicit about which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued. 2) 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. 3) The connection of your research to the field of historical sociolinguistics should be explicitly outlined. 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 (1) additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed. 3) Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes it is not possible to attain complete anonymity, but there is a difference between "inability to anonymize completely" (due to the nature of the research) and "careless non-anonymizing" (for example: "In Jones 2021, I describe..."). In addition, be sure to anonymize your PDF file (you may do so in Adobe Acrobat Reader 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 might not be automatically anonymized by the system; do not use your name (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf) when saving your abstract in PDF format, rather, use non-identifying information (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe_NARNiHS.pdf). Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. Papers that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible (whether in the text of the abstract or in the metadata of the digital file) risk being rejected. Please contact us at NARNiHistSoc at gmail.com with any questions.