From lauersdorf at uky.edu Tue Jan 3 10:51:37 2023 From: lauersdorf at uky.edu (Lauersdorf, Mark R.) Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2023 15:51:37 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] NARNiHS 2023 Annual Meeting: Program and free registration Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Happy New Year! Just in case you missed the Tweet (from @NARNiHS), the?North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) 2023 Annual Meeting (Jan 6-7) program?is now "live" on our website! ==>?https://narnihs.org/?page_id=2291?<==. The full program booklet, including the full abstracts, has also been posted with the Annual Meeting program. Note that?no registration is necessary for NARNiHS members?to attend the fully online NARNiHS 2023. Conference access information will be sent to all NARNiHS members in a separate message as we get closer to the conference dates (06-07 January 2023). Not a member yet, but interested in joining NARNiHS? Membership is free! For details on how to join NARNiHS, check out: ==>?https://narnihs.org/?page_id=2?<==. We hope to see you at our Annual Meeting! Israel Sanz (2022 NARNiHS Convenor), on behalf of the NARNiHS 2022 organizing committee (Joshua Bousquette, Mark Richard Lauersdorf, Israel Sanz, Sandrine Tailleur):?https://narnihs.org/?page_id=2160 . From jadranka.gvozdanovic at slav.uni-heidelberg.de Sun Jan 8 08:54:43 2023 From: jadranka.gvozdanovic at slav.uni-heidelberg.de (Prof. Dr. Jadranka Gvozdanovic) Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2023 13:54:43 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] ICHL26 call for papers Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Happy New Year! Please receive a reminder about the call for papers for the 26th International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Best wishes Jadranka Gvozdanovic ICHL26 Call for papers The jubilee 26th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, 50 years after the first ICHL conference, will be held from 4 to 8 September 2023 in the new main building of the University of Heidelberg (see ICHL26). The ICHL brings together historical linguists and specialists in related fields to explore advances in areas including methods and practices of linguistic reconstruction; formal and functional approaches to language change; historical sociolinguistics; computational approaches to historical linguistics; contact and areal linguistics; interfaces between historical linguistics and other disciplines; and many other related areas. CALL FOR PaperS The call for workshop proposals is now closed (possibly contact the organizers) ? ?? Selected Workshops. Deadline for abstracts of papers (one page plus references) for the general session: Jan. 20, 2023. Application through ?? 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In this conference, we would like to bring together diachronic research on languages from a variety of language families from different periods, with the intention to reflect on its importance for the theory of language change. Some of the questions on which we invite contributions include: * What kinds of pattern in language change do we accept as instances of a cycle? * How do we empirically establish the assumption of a cycle in language change? * To what extent can other patterns in language change be related to cycles? * To what extent can the assumption of cycles be motivated by pragmatic factors such as implicatures and inferencing, politeness, register, as well as constraints of discourse genres (discourse traditions)? * To what extent does the assumption of cycles relate to proposals made in theories of language change such as grammaticalization or construction grammar? * In what notional domains of grammar (e.g., tense, aspect, deixis, pronouns, discourse markers) do phenomena of cyclicity concentrate? * Are there cycles outside morphology, syntax, and the evolution of pragmatic markers, e.g., in lexical change or in phonology? * Do we find cycles in all language families and all periods, or are there specific restrictions? Anonymized abstracts for 30- or 45-minute presentations (max 500 words; please indicate clearly whether you'd like 30 or 45 minutes) should be sent to: Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk and richard.waltereit at hu-berlin.de Deadline for proposals: 16 April 2023 Registration fee: GBP50.00 (includes lunch and morning/afternoon coffee breaks on both days) Meeting URL: https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/pragmatics-in-cyclicity/home/conference/ Best wishes, and Happy New Year, Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen _____________________________________________________________________ Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen Professor, MAE Dept of Linguistics & English Language School of Arts, Languages & Cultures The University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL Academic profile AHRC-funded Research Network on The Role of Pragmatics in Cyclic Language Change (2021-23) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From narnihistsoc at gmail.com Fri Jan 13 04:24:40 2023 From: narnihistsoc at gmail.com (NAm Research Network in HistSocio) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 04:24:40 -0500 Subject: [Histling-l] FINAL call for abstracts: 2023 NARNiHS Research Incubator Message-ID: *** *FINAL* 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. 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Submissions for oral and poster presentations in all areas of linguistics are welcomed, as well as interdisciplinary topics with an element of linguistics. Submissions that have implications for linguistic theory generally or that employ novel empirical methods are especially encouraged. Oral presentations should be no more than 20 minutes in length with an additional 10 minutes allocated for questions, comments and discussion. Poster presentations will be presented during a dedicated session on the schedule. The submission deadline is 15th January 2023 (midnight GMT). Extended deadline: Friday 20th January 2023 (midnight GMT). For more information, please visit https://mfilconf.wordpress.com/call/ Feel free to share this CfP widely, and don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions! 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URL: From luraghi at unipv.it Thu Jan 26 06:38:25 2023 From: luraghi at unipv.it (Silvia Luraghi) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 12:38:25 +0100 Subject: [Histling-l] Historical treebanks / UD annotation issues Message-ID: Hello everyone, we are Silvia Luraghi, Chiara Zanchi, Erica Biagetti and Luca Brigada Villa (University of Pavia) and we are starting *Universal Dependencies for Historical Languages* (*UD4HL*), a new *discussion group* on the annotation of treebanks of historical languages. We would like to systematically address with colleagues working on ancient languages problems such as: 1. *methodological issues*, linked for example to the possibility of including philological or historical information in the MISC field; 2. *annotation issues*, mainly due to the fact that for historical languages we cannot rely on the competence of speakers and we often need more fine-grained guidelines than those of modern languages. Our intention is not to use this group as a substitute of the already existing and lively UD discussion groups, but rather to create an environment where issues that are specific to the annotation of ancient languages can be discussed among experts of such languages before they are presented to the UD community. For each topic addressed within our group, we plan to open a new Github issue in the UD repository, so that other people can take part in the discussion and solutions we reached for historical languages can be shared with the rest of the community. We would like to start a *review process* addressing *one construction type at a time*: in this way we would be able to fix errors due to conversion from other annotation schemes and due to inconsistent application of the guidelines and at the same time we would be able to assemble more fine-grained guidelines for new treebank developers. In our view, correcting the annotation of ancient language treebanks does not mean changing UD rules, but try and find the most linguistically accurate solutions within those rules. For example, Chiara Zanchi, Erica Biagetti and Francesco Mambrini (2022) focused on how to apply the UD guidelines on trivalent verbs to double accusative constructions in the *Homeric Dependency Treebank*. In this case, more fine-grained guidelines served to indicate to the annotators of Ancient Greek (and eventually Sanskrit, Latin, etc.) treebanks how to identify the second and third argument in such constructions (mainly given that there are no native speakers of these languages and we therefore cannot rely on intuition). Besides discussing them with the UD community, we would like to present some of the outcomes of the discussion at the workshop *Exploiting standardized cross-linguistic data in historical linguistics* organized by Robert Forkel, Gerhard J?ger and Johann-Mattis List at the *International Conference on Historical Linguistics *(ICHL26, 4-8 September 2023). You can find more details on the workshop at the following link: https://www.slav.uni-heidelberg.de/md/slav/forschung/tagungen/ichl26/ichl26_selected_workshops.pdf . We would be really happy if you would like to take part in the discussion! If so, we kindly ask you to fill out the form below and forward it to your contacts. *Link to the Google form*: https://forms.gle/iwoU5WWYuZH1JXQHA 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 barbara.theresia.maria.bloom at uni-potsdam.de Mon Jan 30 11:29:58 2023 From: barbara.theresia.maria.bloom at uni-potsdam.de (Dr. phil. Barbara Theresia Maria Bloom) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:29:58 +0100 Subject: [Histling-l] Second CfP: Discourse Structure and Narration: A Diachronic View from Germanic Message-ID: Dear colleagues, The deadline for abstract submission for the workshop "Discourse Structure and Narration: A Diachronic View from Germanic" is now extended to February 10th. See the call for papers below for more details. Yours sincerely, Barthe Bloom Meeting description Discourse Structure and Narration: A Diachronic View from Germanic will be a two-day workshop on the diachronic developments of grammatical realization of discourse and narrative structure, focusing on the patterns exhibited by the Germanic languages. The intent is to publish a collected volume with the papers following the workshop. The organization of the workshop and the following volume is related to the DFG project Wortstellung und Diskursstruktur in der Fr?hen Neuzeit, which is concerned with the impact of discourse structure on Early New High German word order in narratives. 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 February 10th, 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 claire.bowern at yale.edu Wed Feb 15 22:41:50 2023 From: claire.bowern at yale.edu (Claire Bowern) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 22:41:50 -0500 Subject: [Histling-l] Routledge Studies in Historical Linguistics Message-ID: Hi all, I'm the series editor for Routledge Studies in Historical Linguistics. We are currently soliciting books proposals (for monographs or edited volumes). Please see the attached flyer for more information, and https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-in-Historical-Linguistics/book-series/RSHL for recent titles published in the series. I'm particularly interested in publishing books that lay out reconstructions for language families or subgroups, especially understudied language families. But all aspects of historical linguistics fall within the series' remit. Claire -- Claire Bowern Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies Editor: *Diachronica* Department of Linguistics, Yale University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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John Charles Smith St Catherine's College, Oxford, OX1 3UJ, UK Research Centre for Romance Linguistics, University of Oxford College phone: +44 1865 271700; College fax: +44 1865 271768 ________________________________ From: Karin van Weerlee Sent: 06 March 2023 14:09 To: Karin van Weerlee Cc: Camiel hamans ; Frieda Steurs Subject: CIPL Travel grants Dear colleague, As you know, CIPL makes travel grants available twice a year for advanced students without a PhD who want to give a presentation at an international conference abroad. The grant is ? 500.00. During the Covid period, the number of applications was relatively low, as many conferences were held online. Now that most conferences are taking place live again, the number of requests is increasing enormously. Conference organizers have also approached us to ask if they can point their participants to our travel grant program. For that reason we have decided to expand the program slightly. Unfortunately much less than we had hoped, but CIPL's budget, as you know, is limited. Until now, a maximum of three grants have been made available. Now this number has increased to five. Two of these grants are explicitly intended for advanced students who want to give a presentation at a conference organized by one of the member organizations of CIPL. The other three scholarships can be awarded to participants of any international conference who meet the conditions for award. A committee consisting of Prof. Eno-Abasi Urua, Prof. Jacques Moeschler and Prof. Frederic Newmeyer (chair) will assess the applications. The application period for grants for conferences taking place in the second half of this year is from 1 March to 15 May. Further information about the scholarships and the application procedure can be found at https://ciplnet.com/travel-grant-procedure/ We would appreciate it if you could bring the travel grant program to the attention of the members of your organization, including highlighting the possibility that grants are available for international conferences organized by your own association or by other CIPL member organizations. With all best wishes, also on behalf of Prof. Frieda Steurs, Camiel Hamans, associated secretary general -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Origins of and/or constraints on the development of particular morphological phenomena; ? Effects of sociolinguistic conditions on morphological change. The Surrey Morphology Group is a world-class research centre dedicated to the study of language diversity and its theoretical consequences. The student will receive comprehensive training and support in a lively and stimulating research environment, working alongside leading researchers on inflectional morphology. This studentship is part of the project Predicting language evolution: Analogy in morphological change, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. The studentship covers all fees (international fees will be waived) and a maintenance stipend at UKRI rates (currently ?17,668 p.a.), and includes a budget for conference travel. Applicants from any country are encouraged to apply. 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URL: From claire.bowern at yale.edu Fri Mar 31 20:34:02 2023 From: claire.bowern at yale.edu (Claire Bowern) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 20:34:02 -0400 Subject: [Histling-l] Fwd: Morris Halle Centenary Conference In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Donca Steriade Date: Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 8:29 PM Subject: Morris Halle Centenary Conference To: phonolist at linguist.umass.edu Please post: Morris Halle Centenary Conference Dates*: **September 8-10, 2023* Location*: **MIT**, **Cambridge, MA, **USA* Meeting Email*: **m100 at mit.edu * Conference website: *http://m100.mit.edu/index.html* Linguistic Fields: Phonology and Morphology Abstract Deadline: May 25, 2023 Meeting Description: To mark the centenary of Morris Halle?s birth, MIT will host a conference, *Morris at 100,* on September 8?10, 2023. The conference will consist of contributed posters grouped thematically into sessions on the following topics: evaluation metrics, distinctive features, morphology and the lexicon, rules and rule ordering, stress and meter. Each poster session will begin with an introduction to its theme, in relation to Morris Halle?s work. After each session, there will be a general discussion of the posters in it. Call for Papers: We invite abstracts for poster presentations on the session topics above: evaluation metrics, distinctive features, morphology and the lexicon, rules and rule ordering, stress and meter. The posters need not be about Halle?s contribution to any of these topics, though such submissions are welcome. Whether connected to Halle?s work or not, we hope the posters will report new results bearing on the conference topics. Abstracts must be anonymous. Length is limited to two single-spaced pages (US Letter), figures and references included. Font size should be at least 11-point, with margins of at least one inch (2.54cm) on all sides. Abstracts must be submitted in .pdf format. Submissions are limited to two per author, with at most one submission being single- or primary-authored. More information here: http://m100.mit.edu/callforposters.html. The deadline for abstract submission is May 25, 2023 at 11:59 p.m(EDT). Abstract submission is open as of March 30, 2023. Submission should be made via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=m100. Questions about submissions should be addressed to m100 at mit.edu . 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URL: From pcoenen2 at uni-koeln.de Tue Apr 4 06:18:19 2023 From: pcoenen2 at uni-koeln.de (pcoenen2 at uni-koeln.de) Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2023 12:18:19 +0200 Subject: [Histling-l] =?utf-8?q?Call_for_Papers_=E2=80=93_IGAT2023_=22Sou?= =?utf-8?q?nd_change_and_morphological_analogy=22?= Message-ID: <20230404121819.Horde.Xo1aEi8oLcLYXmX-T20DHBN@webmail.uni-koeln.de> Dear colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to the upcoming Arbeitstagung of the Indo-European Society "Sound change and morphological analogy (IG-AT2023)", which will be hosted by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Cologne, September 12th ? 14th 2023. The topic of the conference addresses the two primary mechanisms of language change, sound change and morphological analogy, as well as their intricate interplay within the field of formal change. We welcome papers that address the theoretical foundation of the mechanisms in question, provide alternative concepts or present specific case studies for one or both mechanisms as well as for the interaction with one another. Abstracts (max. 1 page without references) should be sent to p.coenen at uni-koeln.de or svenja.bonmann at uni-koeln.de by April 30th 2023. The abstracts will then be subject to a peer-review process. For further information, please see our website: https://ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/en/hvs/talks-and-publications/sound-change-and-morphological-analogy With kind regards, Pascal Coenen From narnihistsoc at gmail.com Fri Apr 7 15:09:22 2023 From: narnihistsoc at gmail.com (NAm Research Network in HistSocio) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2023 15:09:22 -0400 Subject: [Histling-l] 2023 NARNiHS Research Incubator - program Message-ID: Dear colleagues, The *NARNiHS 2023 Research Incubator (Apr 20-22) program* is now "live" on our website! ==> https://narnihs.org/?page_id=2409 <==. 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The wide range of disciplines include: * Arabic Studies * Contemporary Chinese Studies * English Language * English Literature * French and Francophone Studies * History * Linguistics * Museums and Heritage * Spanish and Latin American Studies * Translation Studies * Visual Culture and Cultural Studies In English Language and Linguistics, we offer the following specialisms: * Sociolinguistics of multilingualism * Sociolinguistics of migration and mobility * Language variation and change * Language and gender, language and politics * Language contact, including the study of codeswitching and creole languages * History of English Research in the School across these fields has an international reputation for excellence, as confirmed by the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF), resulting in increased funding from Research England for our School. The successful candidates will have exceptional research potential in one or more of these areas, and we welcome applications for doctoral projects which span two or more areas of expertise. Applications are invited for the following award(s), which can incorporate any of the subject areas listed above and are tenable for up to three years for full-time study: * English Literature * English Language * History * Linguistics * Modern and Applied Languages * Visual Culture The studentships will consist of a fee waiver for three years and an annual stipend for three years. Please note that while overseas fee-paying students may apply, the fee waived would be at the home rate and successful applicants will need to pay the difference in the tuition fee if assessed as overseas. The studentships will include comprehensive personal and professional development training, and a mentoring programme, provided through the University of Westminster Graduate School. The University of Westminster has a strong commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and is keen on fostering supportive research, learning and working environment. We especially welcome applications from Black and Minority Ethnic students and from those belonging to other groups that are historically under-represented in research. For more information about how to apply please see the details on the website here For enquiries, please email Dr Sylvia Shaw (S.Shaw at westminster.ac.uk). ?? Dr Petros Karatsareas (he/him/his) Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, FHEA Course Leader for MA English Language Co-Director of Bilingualism Matters London University of Westminster School of Humanities http://westminster.academia.edu/PetrosKaratsareas | @pkaratsareas The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW. 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I have now heard from the ISHL Nominating Committee, who have made the following nominations: i) FUTURE PRESIDENT / CONFERENCE DIRECTOR (for 2027) ??rhallur Ey??rsson (H?sk?li ?slands / University of Iceland, Reykjav?k, Iceland) ii) MEMBER OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (to serve until 2029) Sarah Thomason (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, USA) iii) MEMBER OF NOMINATING COMMITTEE (to serve until 2031) Nathan Hill (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) iv) SECRETARY The Nominating Committee proposes that John Charles Smith (University of Oxford, UK) should continue to serve as Secretary of the Society. With these nominations, the composition of the Society's Committees will be as follows: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE President and Director of the 2025 Conference: Ver?nica Mariel Orqueda (Santiago de Chile) Future President and Conference Director (2027): ??rhallur Ey??rsson (Reykjav?k) Former Conference Director: Jadranka Gvozdanovi? (Heidelberg) Secretary: John Charles Smith (Oxford) Other Members: Mark Harvey (Newcastle NSW), until 2025 Joseph Salmons (Madison WI), until 2027 Sarah Thomason (Ann Arbor MI), until 2029 NOMINATING COMMITTEE Chair: Robert Mailhammer (Western Sydney), until 2025 Other Members: Eugen Hill (K?ln), until 2027 Elly van Gelderen (Tempe AZ), until 2029 Nathan Hill (Dublin), until 2031. According to the Society's Constitution, individual members may also make nominations. Should anyone wish to do so, could they please let both the Secretary (johncharles.smith at stcatz.ox.ac.uk) and the current Chair of the Nominating Committee (brigitte.bauer at mpl.nl) know by email as soon as possible, and in any event before 15 June. Nominations will require the signatures of six proposers and the written consent of the nominee. The nominee and all of the proposers should be members of the Society. I look forward to seeing you in Heidelberg. All good wishes, John Charles Smith Secretary, ISHL ? 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They are now at it again ? see https://waset.org/historical-linguistics-conference-in-july-2024-in-paris . This ?Potemkin? conference, like its predecessor, has nothing to do with ISHL?s meetings, the next two of which are in Heidelberg this September and in Santiago de Chile in 2025. So I must repeat my warning of three years ago. Although WASET are annoying, they have not impacted on ISHL in any serious way, as far as I am aware. I took legal advice from Intellectual Property lawyers, who were of the opinion that WASET could not lay claim to the Society?s name, as we were there first (as our name is not a trade mark, the relevant concept here is the common law tort of ?passing off? ? see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_off ). As regards the name of the Conference, the advice was as follows: ?You would probably have difficulty establishing a passing off case in the UK. [In any case, WASET is registered in Azerbaijan, and it is unclear what Azerbaijan has in the way of unfair competition laws.] Most countries do have legal prohibitions against deceptive business practices as part of their general laws against unfair competition, but I'm not sure how successful they?ve been against these pseudo-conference [organizers], given they are still operating. I think the FTC has gone after a few in the USA. I think you?d need a more specific example of deceptive acts in a specific place. It doesn?t help that the name of your conference is so descriptive. You can?t prevent others from organizing conferences on the subject of historical linguistics completely, and there are a limited number of ways to describe such a thing (in English, anyway).? One possibility might be to rebrand ICHL as ?The International Conference on Historical Linguistics organized by the International Society for Historical Linguistics? ? but that would be a mouthful. Or we could try to trade-mark ?ICHL?. But that would be time-consuming and expensive. It may be that we just have to put up with the situation ? I think very few genuine historical linguists are going to be fooled by WASET. We can discuss these matters at the Heidelberg Business Meeting, if people wish. I can certainly mention the issue there. All the best, JC ? John Charles Smith St Catherine's College, Oxford, OX1 3UJ, UK Research Centre for Romance Linguistics, University of Oxford College phone: +44 1865 271700; College fax: +44 1865 271768 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jsalmons at wisc.edu Mon Jun 12 15:29:03 2023 From: jsalmons at wisc.edu (Joe Salmons) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 19:29:03 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Historical syntax question Message-ID: Folks, I?m writing on behalf of Christian Ruvalcaba at UC Santa Cruz, who?s not on this list. We?ve been corresponding about a paper he?s finishing up and he has a question about English historical syntax that somebody MUST know something about. He?s looking at part-whole datives and integral construals, dealing with stuff like this: a. There are several branches to the tree. b. There is a smell to water. c. There was a kindness to his eyes. d. The tree has several branches to it. e. The pieces to the puzzle. f. ?Those cups are not to the same set. While his paper is synchronic, he?s wondering basically if anybody had general ideas about the development of locative/dative marking and possession in Germanic or Indo-European languages. You can respond to him directly -- chruvalc at ucsc.edu. Thanks! Joe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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He?s looking at part-whole datives and integral construals, dealing with stuff like this: a. There are several branches to the tree. b. There is a smell to water. c. There was a kindness to his eyes. d. The tree has several branches to it. e. The pieces to the puzzle. f. ?Those cups are not to the same set. While his paper is synchronic, he?s wondering basically if anybody had general ideas about the development of locative/dative marking and possession in Germanic or Indo-European languages. You can respond to him directly -- chruvalc at ucsc.edu. Thanks! Joe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Benjamin.Molineaux at ed.ac.uk Thu Jun 15 11:01:53 2023 From: Benjamin.Molineaux at ed.ac.uk (Ben Molineaux Ress) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 15:01:53 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Sixth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology 4-5 Dec 2023 Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting! You are cordially invited to the SIXTH EDINBURGH SYMPOSIUM ON HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY 4th - 5th DECEMBER 2023 CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for abstracts: 31st July 2023 What do we need to consider in order to understand the innovation and propagation of phonological change, and to reconstruct past phonological states? The Sixth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology will offer an opportunity to discuss fundamental questions in historical phonology as well as specific analyses of historical data. Our plenary speaker is: * SHELECE EASTERDAY (University of Hawai?i at M?noa). The invited speaker will address foundational issues in the discipline over two one-hour slots, one on each day of the symposium, and there will be considerable time allocated to discussion. Symposium website: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/symposium-on-historical-phonology/eshp6/ ------------------------ BACKGROUND We see historical phonology as the branch of linguistics which links phonology to the past in any way. Its key concerns are (i) how and why the phonology of languages changes in diachrony, and (ii) the reconstruction of past synchronic stages of languages? phonologies. These are inextricably linked: we need to understand what the past stages of languages were in order to understand which changes have occurred, and we need to understand which kinds of changes are possible and how they are implemented in order to reconstruct past synchronic stages. We define phonology, broadly, as that part of language which deals with the patterning of the units used in speech, and we see historical phonology as an inherently inter(sub)disciplinary enterprise. In order to understand (i) and (ii), we need to combine insights from theoretical phonology, phonetics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, philology, and, no doubt, other areas. We need to interact with the traditions of scholarship that have grown up around individual languages and language families and with disciplines like history, sociology and palaeography. The kinds of questions that we ask include at least the following: - Which changes are possible in phonology? - What is the precise patterning of particular changes in the history of specific languages? - How do changes arise and spread through communities? - Are there characteristics that phonological changes (or particular types of changes) always show? - What counts as evidence for change, or for the reconstruction of previous stages of languages? phonologies? - What kinds of factors can motivate or constrain change? - Are there factors which lead to stability in language, and militate against change? - To what extent is phonological change independent of changes that occur at other levels of the grammar, such as morphology, syntax or semantics? - What is the relationship between the study of completed phonological changes and of variation and change in progress? - What is the relationship between phonological change and (first and second) language acquisition? - What types of units and domains, at both segmental and prosodic levels, do we need in order to capture phonological change? - How can the results of historical phonology inform phonological theorising? - How does phonologisation proceed ? how do non-phonological pressures come to be reflected in phonology? - How can contact between speakers of different languages, or between speakers of distinct varieties of the same language, lead to phonological change, or to the creation of new phonological systems? - How has historical phonology developed as an academic enterprise? We invite one-page abstracts addressing these, or any other questions relevant to the symposium topics, by 31st July 2023. ------------------------ SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Please submit your abstracts via EasyAbs. Abstracts should not exceed one A4 or US Letter page with 2.5 cm or 1 inch margins in a 12pt font. The file should not include any information identifying the author(s). All examples and references in the abstract should be included on the one single page, but it is enough, when referring to previous work, to cite ?Author (Date)? in the body of the abstract ? you do not need to give the full reference at the end of the abstract. Please do not submit an abstract if it goes over one page ? it will be rejected. To submit an abstract, use the EasyAbs submission page here: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/ESHP6 When submitting your abstract, you will need to log in to the EasyAbs system (this is a new process for EasyAbs). Please list all authors for your abstract in the 'Authors' field. We will consider all submitted abstracts for either a talk or a poster presentation (with the assumption that you would rather have a talk) unless you state (in the 'Comments' field, when you submit the abstract) that you would only like to be considered for one of these formats. Please also check the ESHP6 website for details: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/symposium-on-historical-phonology/eshp6/ ------------------------ ORGANISERS The conference email address is: sympo-org at mlist.is.ed.ac.uk. COMMIITTEE Laura Arnold Julian Bradfield Patrick Honeybone Pavel Iosad Iris Kamil Brandon Kieffer Benjamin Molineaux Ricardo Napole?o de Souza Rebekka Puderbaugh Oksana Lebedivna ADVISORY BOARD Ricardo Berm?dez-Otero (University of Manchester) Fernando O. de Carvalho (Museu Nacional, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) Andr?s Cser (P?zm?ny P?ter Catholic University) Silke Hamann (University of Amsterdam) Nathan Hill (Trinity College Dublin) Ad?le Jatteau (Universit? de Lille) Darya Kavitskaya (University of California Berkeley) James Kirby (LMU Munich) Bj?rn K?hnlein (Ohio State University) Donka Minkova (University of California Los Angeles) Martha Ratliff (Wayne State University) Nikolaus Ritt (University of Vienna) Michela Russo (Universit? Lyon III ? Jean Moulin) Joseph C. Salmons (University of Wisconsin ? Madison) Jade J. Sandstedt (Volda University College) Tobias Scheer (University of Nice) Ranjan Sen (University of Sheffield) Patrycja Strycharczuk (University of Manchester) Meredith Tamminga (University of Pennsylvania) Danielle Turton (Lancaster University) ---- Benjamin Molineaux (he/him), Lecturer in Linguistics The University of Edinburgh benmolineaux.ppls.ed.ac.uk 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... 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Secretary of the International Society for Historical Linguistics John Charles Smith (University of Oxford) has informed the Nominating Committee of the International Society for Historical Linguistics that he intends to step down as Secretary of the Society at the end of ICHL 2025, in Santiago. By then, he will have served as Secretary for almost 25 years and feels that it is time for someone else to take over. The Society is most grateful for to him for his excellent service! Given the importance of this position, the Nominating Committee will tread carefully in its search for a successor, which may be a time-consuming process. The Committee is therefore starting the process of selecting a new Secretary as of today, by announcing the vacancy and inviting colleagues to put forward names of potential candidates or to propose themselves. Important criteria for the post are: (1) regular attendance at previous ICHLs; (2) commitment to attend future ICHLs; (3) solid acquaintance with the Society?s workings; and (4) thorough knowledge of ISHL?s Constitution and Rules & Regulations (or willingness to acquire such expertise). At ICHL in Heidelberg this September, the Nominating Committee will talk to colleagues who wish to be considered for this position and who will be at that Conference. Please send proposals before August 15, 2023 to the Chair of the Nominating Committee, Brigitte Bauer, at brigitte.bauer at mpi.nl. or blm.bauer at austin.utexas.edu --End of message-- This message is from an external sender. Learn more about why this matters. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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John Charles Smith St Catherine's College, Oxford, OX1 3UJ, UK Research Centre for Romance Linguistics, University of Oxford College phone: +44 1865 271700; College fax: +44 1865 271768 ________________________________ From: Karin van Weerlee Sent: 05 July 2023 21:22 To: Karin van Weerlee Subject: ICL21 - Call for papers Dear member of CIPL's General Assembly, Please find enclosed the Call for papers and workshop proposals for ICL21 in Poznan, Poland September 2024. This information can also be found on CIPL's website: https://ciplnet.com/news/call-for-papers-and-workshop-proposals/ Kind regards, On behalf of professor Frieda Steurs, Secretary-General of CIPL, Karin van Weerlee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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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 Sixth Annual Meeting (NARNiHS 2024), Thursday, January 4 ? Sunday, January 7, 2024. Deadline for receipt of abstracts: Friday, 11 August 2023, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time. Late abstracts will not be considered. NARNiHS welcomes abstracts in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application/development of sociolinguistic theories, models, and methods for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, and methodologies easily find their place within the field, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. Abstracts will be accepted for both 20-minute papers and posters. Please note that, at the NARNiHS annual meeting, poster presentations are an integral part of the conference (not second-tier presentations). Abstracts will be assigned a paper or a poster presentation based on determinations in the review process about the most effective format for the submission. However, if you prefer that your submission be considered primarily for poster presentation, please specify this in your abstract. Abstracts 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 significantly increase the likelihood of non-acceptance (see point iii below). General Requirements: 1) Abstracts must be submitted electronically, using the following link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NARNiHS2024 2) Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts: one single-author abstract and one co-authored abstract. 3) Authors may not submit identical abstracts for presentation at the NARNiHS meeting and at the LSA Annual Meeting or one of the other LSA Sister Societies (ADS, ANS, NAAHoLS, SCiL, SPCL, SSILA). 4) Specify in the abstract if you prefer that your submission be considered primarily for a poster presentation. 5) After an abstract has been submitted, no changes of author, title, or wording of the abstract, other than those due to typographical errors, are permitted. If accepted, authors will be contacted for a final version for the abstract booklet. 6) Papers or posters must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. 7) Authors are expected to attend the conference in-person and present their own papers and posters. This will not be a hybrid event. 8) We are planning for an LCD projector with sound to be available for all paper presentations. Abstract Format Guidelines: i. Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. ii. 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. iii. 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. 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The Sixth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology will offer an opportunity to discuss fundamental questions in historical phonology as well as specific analyses of historical data. Our plenary speaker is: * SHELECE EASTERDAY (University of Hawai?i at M?noa). The invited speaker will address foundational issues in the discipline over two one-hour slots, one on each day of the symposium, and there will be considerable time allocated to discussion. Symposium website: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/symposium-on-historical-phonology/eshp6/ ------------------------ BACKGROUND We see historical phonology as the branch of linguistics which links phonology to the past in any way. Its key concerns are (i) how and why the phonology of languages changes in diachrony, and (ii) the reconstruction of past synchronic stages of languages? phonologies. These are inextricably linked: we need to understand what the past stages of languages were in order to understand which changes have occurred, and we need to understand which kinds of changes are possible and how they are implemented in order to reconstruct past synchronic stages. We define phonology, broadly, as that part of language which deals with the patterning of the units used in speech, and we see historical phonology as an inherently inter(sub)disciplinary enterprise. In order to understand (i) and (ii), we need to combine insights from theoretical phonology, phonetics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, philology, and, no doubt, other areas. We need to interact with the traditions of scholarship that have grown up around individual languages and language families and with disciplines like history, sociology and palaeography. The kinds of questions that we ask include at least the following: - Which changes are possible in phonology? - What is the precise patterning of particular changes in the history of specific languages? - How do changes arise and spread through communities? - Are there characteristics that phonological changes (or particular types of changes) always show? - What counts as evidence for change, or for the reconstruction of previous stages of languages? phonologies? - What kinds of factors can motivate or constrain change? - Are there factors which lead to stability in language, and militate against change? - To what extent is phonological change independent of changes that occur at other levels of the grammar, such as morphology, syntax or semantics? - What is the relationship between the study of completed phonological changes and of variation and change in progress? - What is the relationship between phonological change and (first and second) language acquisition? - What types of units and domains, at both segmental and prosodic levels, do we need in order to capture phonological change? - How can the results of historical phonology inform phonological theorising? - How does phonologisation proceed ? how do non-phonological pressures come to be reflected in phonology? - How can contact between speakers of different languages, or between speakers of distinct varieties of the same language, lead to phonological change, or to the creation of new phonological systems? - How has historical phonology developed as an academic enterprise? We invite one-page abstracts addressing these, or any other questions relevant to the symposium topics, by 31st July 2023. ------------------------ SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Please submit your abstracts via EasyAbs. Abstracts should not exceed one A4 or US Letter page with 2.5 cm or 1 inch margins in a 12pt font. The file should not include any information identifying the author(s). All examples and references in the abstract should be included on the one single page, but it is enough, when referring to previous work, to cite ?Author (Date)? in the body of the abstract ? you do not need to give the full reference at the end of the abstract. Please do not submit an abstract if it goes over one page ? it will be rejected. To submit an abstract, use the EasyAbs submission page here: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/ESHP6 When submitting your abstract, you will need to log in to the EasyAbs system (this is a new process for EasyAbs). Please list all authors for your abstract in the 'Authors' field. We will consider all submitted abstracts for either a talk or a poster presentation (with the assumption that you would rather have a talk) unless you state (in the 'Comments' field, when you submit the abstract) that you would only like to be considered for one of these formats. Please also check the ESHP6 website for details: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/symposium-on-historical-phonology/eshp6/ ------------------------ ORGANISERS The conference email address is: sympo-org at mlist.is.ed.ac.uk. COMMIITTEE Laura Arnold Julian Bradfield Patrick Honeybone Pavel Iosad Iris Kamil Brandon Kieffer Benjamin Molineaux Ricardo Napole?o de Souza Rebekka Puderbaugh Oksana Lebedivna ADVISORY BOARD Ricardo Berm?dez-Otero (University of Manchester) Fernando O. de Carvalho (Museu Nacional, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) Andr?s Cser (P?zm?ny P?ter Catholic University) Silke Hamann (University of Amsterdam) Nathan Hill (Trinity College Dublin) Ad?le Jatteau (Universit? de Lille) Darya Kavitskaya (University of California Berkeley) James Kirby (LMU Munich) Bj?rn K?hnlein (Ohio State University) Donka Minkova (University of California Los Angeles) Nikolaus Ritt (University of Vienna) Michela Russo (Universit? Lyon III ? Jean Moulin / SFL CNRS?Universit? Paris 8) Joseph C. Salmons (University of Wisconsin ? Madison) Jade J. Sandstedt (Volda University College) Tobias Scheer (University of Nice) Ranjan Sen (University of Sheffield) Patrycja Strycharczuk (University of Manchester) Meredith Tamminga (University of Pennsylvania) Danielle Turton (Lancaster University) 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 vorqueda at uc.cl Sat Sep 2 04:36:53 2023 From: vorqueda at uc.cl (Veronica Mariel Orqueda) Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2023 08:36:53 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Distribution of a google form Message-ID: Dear colleagues, We start now to organize 27th ICHL conference (Santiago de Chile, 2025) and we would like to estimate a rough number of international attendees to the activity. We have created a google form that will be opened until the end of September 2025: https://forms.gle/2BkxT1FXeuMezEZH9 We would very much appreciate if you could distribute it through the mailing lists and any other resources you may have. With many thanks Ver?nica Orqueda [https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/VpQqMkWSA7X130vIPCGe5C8uvly2oQ_fYtV91zz1UPcKQSz2xu5t5GkyS39AXF2evXDM5sYo5F0=w1200-h630-p] 27th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Chile, 2025 Please indicate the option that best describes your intentions regarding the ICHL conference in Santiago de Chile in 2025. Por favor, indique cu?l de las siguientes opciones describe mejor su intenci?n de participar en ICHL en Santiago de Chile en 2025. forms.gle No sienta la obligaci?n de contestar este mail fuera de horario laboral. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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They are: Vol. 1: Material culture Vol. 2: The physical environment Vol. 3: Plants Vol. 4: Animals Vol. 5: People: Body and mind Vol. 6: People: Society The blurb on the Project website (https://sites.google.com/view/theoceaniclexiconproject/) reads: The lexicon of Proto Oceanic is a six-volume series reconstructing the lexicon of Proto Oceanic , the language ancestral to most of the Austronesian languages of Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia. By paying particular attention to the semantics of terminologies, the members of the Oceanic Lexicon Project have learned much about the material culture, social organisation, and cosmology of Proto Oceanic speakers and about the ways in which they categorised and adapted to the environment. The completed series forms a comprehensive reference for anyone working in Oceanic linguistics or archaeology. The website also contains some background to the Project and descriptions of the volumes? contents. 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With the appearance of volume 6 of *The lexicon of Proto Oceanic* the Oceanic Lexicon Project closes its doors (almost?see below). We published the first volume of *The lexicon of Proto Oceanic* in 1998. The sixth and last appeared yesterday. All six volumes (edited by Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley and Meredith Osmond) are freely available on line at http://hdl.handle.net/1885/106908. They are: Vol. 1: Material culture Vol. 2: The physical environment Vol. 3: Plants Vol. 4: Animals Vol. 5: People: Body and mind Vol. 6: People: Society The blurb on the Project website (https://sites.google.com/view/theoceaniclexiconproject/) reads: The lexicon of Proto Oceanic is a six-volume series reconstructing the lexicon of Proto Oceanic, the language ancestral to most of the Austronesian languages of Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia. By paying particular attention to the semantics of terminologies, the members of the Oceanic Lexicon Project have learned much about the material culture, social organisation, and cosmology of Proto Oceanic speakers and about the ways in which they categorised and adapted to the environment. The completed series forms a comprehensive reference for anyone working in Oceanic linguistics or archaeology. The website also contains some background to the Project and descriptions of the volumes? contents. 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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 14:23:50 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Assistant Professor in Syntax -- Department of Linguistics -- University of Kentucky Message-ID: *** Assistant Professor in Syntax *** Department of Linguistics *** University of Kentucky The Department of Linguistics in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky seeks to fill a tenure-eligible faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in Syntax. This is a 9-month position in the regular title series with an anticipated start date of August 1, 2024. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated research expertise in syntax with interest in computable syntactic models, with secondary expertise in semantics, morphology, or psycholinguistics, and an ability to teach courses in a range of these areas. The Linguistics department is strong in sociolinguistics, computational linguistics, and historical linguistics. We encourage candidates whose research and teaching interests can contribute to one or more of these areas. A Ph.D. in Linguistics or related field is required. Interested applicants should apply online at: https://ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/485221 . Application deadline for this position is: December 11th, 2023. Applicants must include the following: 1) cover letter, 2) CV, 3) Unofficial Transcript, 4) statement of teaching experience (upload as Specific Request 1), 5) statement of research experience (upload as Specific Request 2), and 6) a statement on their contribution toward inclusive excellence in teaching, research, professional activities, and/or service (upload as Specific Request 3). In addition, please provide the names and contact information for three references when prompted in the academic profile. This information may be utilized to solicit recommendation letters from your references within the employment system. The University of Kentucky provides comprehensive benefits which are fully described at https://hr.uky.edu/employment/working-uk/our-benefits . Questions about this search should be addressed to Dr. Allison Burkette, Department Chair, Department of Linguistics, University of Kentucky (allison.burkette at uky.edu). Interested applicants should apply online at: https://ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/485221 . Application deadline for this position is December 11th, 2023. As an equal Opportunity Employer, we strongly encourage veterans, individuals with disabilities, women, and all minorities to consider our employment opportunities. From P.Karatsareas at westminster.ac.uk Fri Sep 22 04:04:10 2023 From: P.Karatsareas at westminster.ac.uk (Petros Karatsareas) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2023 08:04:10 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Westminster Forum for Language and Linguistics Research Seminars Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I am 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 diverse and fascinating 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 4 October, when Johanna Vogelsanger (University of Zurich) will present a paper on ?Survival and obsolescence in the Middle English lexicon?. All colleagues are welcome to attend via https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/cdca72e48c1740d697c43537879aec39 Google Chrome is the recommended browser. If you have technical difficulties before or during seminars, log into https://meet.google.com/poj-fdrv-qyk, and someone will be there to help. We are looking forward to seeing you there. With all best wishes, Petros ?? Dr Petros Karatsareas (he/him/his) Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, FHEA Course Leader for MA English Language Co-Director of Bilingualism Matters London University of Westminster School of Humanities http://westminster.academia.edu/PetrosKaratsareas | @pkaratsareas The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We invite applications from scholars with philological and linguistic expertise in Classical and Indo-European linguistics and significant professional engagement with Classical literature and culture. The successful candidate will be able to offer courses in both Greek and Italic historical and comparative linguistics and in core Indo-European linguistics as well as in Classical literature and culture (specialty open). We would welcome applicants who could also contribute to other UCLA interdisciplinary academic units such as the Institute for the Study of Global Antiquity, the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World, the Center for the Study of Religion, and the Program in Digital Humanities. Ph.D. is required before the date of appointment. Candidates should have an outstanding record in research and teaching; entry-level candidates (for hiring at the rank of Assistant Professor) should show great potential for outstanding research and teaching. Candidates should also demonstrate a commitment to student mentoring/advising and to teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. We welcome candidates whose experience in teaching, research, or community service has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to diversity and excellence. Applications should include the items listed below and be submitted by November 3, 2023, in order to receive full consideration: ? Letter of application, including a detailed research statement ? Current curriculum vitae ? Names and contact information for three recommenders ? Course evaluations and/or other material bearing on teaching effectiveness ? A representative article-length publication or dissertation chapter (or excerpted chapter) of similar length ? Statement on contributions to equity, diversity, and inclusion ? 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The salary range for this position is from $74,600 (Assistant Professor I) to $197,100 (Professor IX). ?Off-scale salaries? and other components of pay, i.e., a salary that is higher than the published system-wide salary at the designated rank and step, are offered when necessary to meet competitive conditions. See campus compensation page for additional information. The University of California is committed to creating and maintaining a community dedicated to the advancement, application, and transmission of knowledge and creative endeavors through academic excellence, where all individuals who participate in University programs and activities can work and learn together in a safe and secure environment, free of violence, harassment, bullying and other demeaning behavior, discrimination, exploitation, or intimidation. 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Papers will be especially welcome on new and recent developments in the study of language change, including the use of large-scale corpora and artificial intelligence. Abstracts should clearly state the research question(s) addressed, together with the approach, methods, data, and (known or expected) results. They should not contain the names of the authors, nor their affiliations or addresses, nor any other information by which they could be identified. They should provide a title, five keywords, and between 300 and 400 words of text (including examples, but excluding references). Abstracts should be submitted via Easychair (a link will shortly be provided on the Congress web site, at https://icl2024poznan.pl/ ). The deadline for abstract submission is 8 January 2024 (12.00 PM CET). When submitting an abstract, authors may specify a paper or a poster. Papers will be organized in 30-minute slots (20 minutes for presentation, 7 minutes for discussion, 3 minutes for room change). 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Mhaonaigh (University of Cambridge), Dr Danica Salazar, (Oxford University Press), and Dr John Gallagher (University of Leeds). Please see the blog for further information, including the call for papers: https://blog.westminster.ac.uk/ichll2024/. More information about the conference can also be found here: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/call-for-papers-14th-international-conference-on-historical-lexicography-and-lexicology-ichll . Please circulate the links to all who might be interested. Best wishes, Heather Pagan, Sylvia Shaw, & Louise Sylvester University of Westminster Local organizing committee ICHLL 14 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From DEHOLT01 at mailbox.sc.edu Wed Oct 18 11:59:25 2023 From: DEHOLT01 at mailbox.sc.edu (Holt, Eric) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 15:59:25 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Position announcement: Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of South Carolina Message-ID: The Linguistics Program at the University of South Carolina (USC) invites applications for a full time, tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin August 16, 2024. Candidates must have a demonstrated promise of excellence in teaching and research and have a PhD in Linguistics or closely related field by the start of the appointment. The program particularly encourages applicants with a primary or secondary specialization in computational linguistics, English historical linguistics, linguistic anthropology, psycholinguistics, or sociolinguistics. Outstanding applicants in other subfields will also be considered. As an independent, interdepartmental unit of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Linguistics Program has core and affiliated faculty with tenure in Anthropology, English Language & Literature, Languages, Literatures & Cultures, Philosophy, and Psychology; it has affiliated faculty in the English Programs for Internationals, Communication Sciences & Disorders, and Education. At the graduate level, the Linguistics Program offers an MA and PhD in Linguistics, as well as a Graduate Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). Undergraduate students may pursue the new Linguistics concentration in the Languages, Literatures & Cultures BA. For more information, please visit: https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/linguistics/index.php. At the University of South Carolina, we strive to cultivate an inclusive environment that is open, welcoming, and supportive of individuals of all backgrounds. We recognize diversity in our workforce is essential to providing academic excellence and critical to our sustainability. The University is committed to eliminating barriers created by institutional discrimination through accountability and continuous process improvement. We celebrate the diverse voices, perspectives, and experiences of our employees. >From the Upstate to the Lowcountry, the University of South Carolina system is transforming the lives of South Carolinians through the impact of our eight institutions and 20 locations throughout the state. More than 50,000 students are enrolled at one of eight institutions, including the research campus in Columbia and comprehensive four-year universities in Aiken, Upstate and Beaufort. In addition, our Palmetto College campuses in Salkehatchie, Union, Lancaster and Sumter enable students to earn associate or bachelor's degrees through a combination of in-person, online or blended learning. All of our system institutions place strong emphasis on service - helping to build healthier, more educated communities in South Carolina and beyond. The University of South Carolina does not discriminate in educational or employment opportunities on the basis of race, sex, gender, gender identity, transgender status, age, color, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, protected veteran status, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions. How to Apply All applicants must apply online at USCJobs at https://uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/154691. Applications must include: (1) a cover letter that describes their research and teaching interests, (2) a curriculum vitae, and (3) the names and email addresses of 3 references. Review of applications will commence on December 1, 2023. Position will remain open until filled. 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We hope that these seminars will nurture international collaboration and establish academic ties among researchers working on similar topics in this field. Seminars will start in January 2024 and will last one hour (30 minutes of presentation + 30 minutes of discussion). All seminars will be held remotely via Microsoft Teams at 5pm GMT. They will provisionally be held once a month, but this may increase up to twice a month depending on the number of speakers. The day of the week may vary depending on the speakers? availability. We welcome proposals from current PhD students working on Historical Linguistics, with an emphasis on quantitative approaches. Abstracts of a maximum of 400 words should include the description (language, size, object, methodology) of a dataset. They should also specify whether the analysis was conducted manually or computationally. Abstracts and personal information (name, surname, affiliation, email address) should be sent to either of the two convenors, Andrea Farina (andrea.farina at kcl.ac.uk) or Mathilde Bru (mathilde.bru.20 at ucl.ac.uk). Deadline for the abstracts is 11 December 2023. All this information is readily available at our website. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From claire.bowern at yale.edu Wed Oct 25 10:28:44 2023 From: claire.bowern at yale.edu (Claire Bowern) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 10:28:44 -0400 Subject: [Histling-l] International Morphology Meeting 21 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *21st International Morphology Meeting (IMM21)* Date: 28-Aug-2024 - 30-Aug-2024 Location: Vienna, Austria Web Site: https://www.wu.ac.at/en/bizcomm/events/imm21/ Meeting Description: As in the past, the next Viennese IMM will again be a thematically open venue hosting papers on all kinds of topics related to morphology. Workshops up to a limit of eight papers are welcome on any topic in morphology, excluding the meeting?s main topic. This time, the main topic will be ?Historical morphology and morphological theory?. Call for Papers: While the first 100 years of the language sciences concentrated on the historical study of languages to the point of exclusivity, with the advent of structuralism and later generative grammar, the synchronic approach became dominant in the middle of the 20th century. Several decades ago, it may even have seemed as if historical linguistics was on the wane, but new generations of linguists have rediscovered the diachronic study of language, not as an end in itself, but with an eye to what historical linguistics can contribute to our understanding of human language in general. The dynamics of language change in fact often provides privileged access to the inner workings of language. In an endeavor to elaborate a comprehensive theory of human language, historical linguistics, psycholinguistics and the study of language acquisition, language typology and grammatical description complement each other in a complex interplay. If we understand why languages change continually, and why they do so in certain ways and not others, we have gone a long way in getting a grip on the nature of human language. Morphology is present in human languages to vastly different degrees, ranging from just some compounding in highly isolating languages to the morphological exuberance of polysynthetic languages. It has been called a luxury, a logically unnecessary part of human language, and some theories of language have even tried to dissolve this nuisance in phonology, syntax, and semantics. Instead of banning the troublemaker, however, it could be more fruitful to try to explain why morphology arises in language after language, and why it evolves in certain ways but not in others. Once we have answered these and related questions, our understanding of human language will be greatly enhanced. Participants who want to contribute to the central topic of the meeting are kindly asked not to lose sight of this general-linguistic perspective and to make it clear how their case study relates to it. Keynote speakers: Peter Arkadiev (University of Mainz) Claire Bowern (Yale University) Angela Ralli (University of Patras) Organizers: Francesco Gardani (University of Zurich) Franz Rainer (WU Vienna) Conference manager: Elisabeth Peters (WU Vienna) Host: WU Vienna, Welthandelsplatz 1, Vienna, Austria Important dates: Submission of abstracts: 1 September - 31 October 2023 Notification of acceptance for abstracts: 31 December 2023 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerhard.jaeger at uni-tuebingen.de Fri Oct 27 09:29:47 2023 From: gerhard.jaeger at uni-tuebingen.de (=?UTF-8?Q?Gerhard_J=C3=A4ger?=) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 15:29:47 +0200 Subject: [Histling-l] =?utf-8?q?Job_opening=3A_Assistent_Professor_=28AR_?= =?utf-8?q?auf_Zeit=29_at_T=C3=BCbingen_University?= Message-ID: <12fca1d0-3c9a-4476-98da-eb63ffef4a1f@uni-tuebingen.de> The following position is available in the Department of Linguistics beginning *April 1st, 2024*. *Academic Councilor non-tenured (German: Akademischer Rat auf Zeit)* (m/f/d; grade A 13) The position is to be filled for an initial period of 3 years, with the possibility of renewal for another 3 years. The responsibilities of the position holder include teaching according to the requirements of the LVVO (two courses per semester), as well as research in the field of General Linguistics and administrative duties. Requirements for employment are a completed PhD in a relevant field (linguistics, cognitive science, computational linguistics, etc.), the ability to teach in the field of General Linguistics in English, and the ability to conduct independent scientific research in the field (as evidenced, e.g., by relevant publications). A specialization in language variation, combined with quantitative methods, will be considered a plus. Persons with severe disability will be given preferential consideration if equally qualified. The University of T?bingen aims to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching and therefore invites applications from suitably qualified female scientists. Please send your application with the usual documents (motivation letter, extensive CV, list of publications, contact details of three potential referees; everything in a single pdf file) by *December 15, 2023*, to Prof. Dr. Gerhard J?ger, Wilhelmstr. 19, 72074 T?bingen, e-mail: gerhard.jaeger at uni-tuebingen.de. The recruitment will be done by the Central Administration. -- Prof. Dr. Gerhard J?ger Universit?t T?bingen Seminar f?r Sprachwissenschaft Tel.: +49-7071-29-77302 http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~gjaeger/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rdockum1 at swarthmore.edu Tue Nov 21 12:51:21 2023 From: rdockum1 at swarthmore.edu (Rikker Dockum) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 12:51:21 -0500 Subject: [Histling-l] Call for papers for a themed issue in Diachronica on 'The diachrony of tone: connecting the field' Message-ID: Call for papers for a themed issue in Diachronica on ?The diachrony of tone: connecting the field? Theme editors: Sandra Auderset (University of Bern), Rikker Dockum (Swarthmore College), Ryan Gehrmann (Payap University) Context and background Tone, that is the use of pitch to distinguish lexical and/or grammatical forms, is an integral feature of many ? possibly a majority of ? languages across the world (Yip 2002, Maddieson 2023). However, tonal phenomena are conspicuously absent from most studies on language change. As a result, interest and progress in the understanding of the origins and evolution of suprasegmental contrasts lags behind that of segmental contrasts (Janda & Joseph 2003, Dockum 2019, Campbell 2021). Since the latter half of the 20th century, steady progress has been made in the investigation of tonogenesis, and various pathways by which a language may develop novel tonal contrasts have been described. The transphonologization of historically segmental contrasts into tone (i.e. desegmentalization (Gehrmann 2022)) is well documented and has received a good deal of attention in the literature (Haudricourt 1954, Hyman 1976). Prosodic contrasts may also give rise to tones (e.g. Cushitic (Kie?ling 2004)), and tonal contrasts can also be acquired through contact and bilingualism between a non-tonal language with a tonal one (e.g. Southern Qiang (Evans 2001), Mal (L-Thongkum & Intajamornrak 2008)). In other language families, tonogenesis occurred so long ago the original mechanisms by which tones arose may no longer be recoverable (e.g. Otomanguean (Rensch 1976, Kaufman forthcoming), Niger-Congo (Hyman 2016)). Nevertheless, these families offer ample opportunity to explore the concept of tone change, which has received less scholarly attention than tonogenesis and has often gone unaddressed in language families with old tone systems (Auderset 2022). This can be at least partially attributed to impressionistic statements on the diachronic volatility of tones (Ratliff 2015; Cahill 2011; Beam de Azcona 2007; Morey 2005; D?rr 1990, among others), and a prevailing assumption that tones play at best a minor role in unraveling the history of a language family. There is thus a considerable gap in the field of historical linguistics when it comes to the diachronic study of tones. Some welcome exceptions to this include a recent collected volume on tone neutralization and phonetic tone change (Kubozono & Giriko 2018), a synthesis of work on tone change in Asia (Yang & Xu 2019) and several studies looking at historical tone change in individual languages or clusters of related languages (Yang et al. 2022, Yang 2022, Yang 2023). This gap also applies to computer-assisted methods, such as automatic alignment and cognate detection (List et al. 2018), and quantitative methods, such as Bayesian phylogenetics (Greenhill et al. 2020), which have gained traction in the field over the past two decades. Studies using such methodologies have been applied to few language families with tonal contrasts (e.g. Sagart et al. 2019 and Zhang et al. 2019, both on Sino-Tibetan) and none have addressed tone, despite evidence of historical tone categories having significant phylogenetic signal (Dockum 2018, 2019, Auderset 2022). Topics of interest As a result of the issues mentioned above, comparatively few linguists focus on the diachronic study of tone. Individual specialists tend to sort themselves into regional and language family niches, leaving the field fragmented with little dialogue or cross-pollination between interested scholars. Given that the diachronic study of tone is in need of intensified research, the absence of exchange between scholars creates a further impediment to progress in this area. This themed issue aims to address this by bringing together contributions from linguists from different regions and language families who work on tone diachrony. Papers should address topics in the diachronic study of tone, either in a single language, a language (sub-)family, a geographical region, or cross-linguistically. Topics include but are not limited to: - phonological environments that condition the emergence of tone contrasts or tone changes in existing tones; - morphosyntactic patterns involving the innovation of new tone contrasts or changes to existing tone contrasts; - underlying articulatory, acoustic, and perceptual mechanisms of tonogenesis and/or tone change; - methodological considerations in the study of tone diachrony, e.g. the comparability of tonal systems in the absence of detailed phonetic studies, and the creation of reusable datasets and databases; - addressing similarities and differences, both theoretically and empirically, in the study of tonal and segmental change; - the contribution of tone to our understanding of the linguistic past, including subgrouping and classification in a language family, explaining historical contact phenomena between languages and language families, etc.; - the relationship of historical tone studies with language documentation and description of tonal languages and language families; - descriptions of tone change in under-described languages Submissions The submissions should be in the format of short journal papers. The word limit per submission is 6,000 words. Submissions can be in English, Spanish, French, or German. Authors are encouraged to consult the general submission guidelines of Diachronica . Important dates Submissions due: February 29, 2024 Author notifications: Summer 2024 References Auderset, Sandra. 2022. Confronting challenges in historical linguistics: Quantitative approaches to dialect area subgrouping and tone change in Mixtec. Santa Barbara: University of California Santa Barbara PhD Thesis. Baart, Joan. 2014. Tone and stress in north?west Indo?Aryan: A survey. In Caspers et al. (eds.), Above and Beyond the Segments: Experimental Linguistics and Phonetics, 1-13. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. DOI:10.1075/z.189.01baa Beam de Azcona, Rosemary G. 2007. Problems in Zapotec tone reconstruction. In Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 3?15. DOI: 10.3765/bls.v33i2.3497 Bennett, Ryan. 2016. Mayan phonology. Language and Linguistics Compass 10(10), 469?514. DOI:10.1111/lnc3.12148 Benton, Joe. 2001. A reconstruction of the tone system of Proto Zapotec. Unpublished manuscript. Cahill, Michael. 2011. Tonal diversity in languages of Papua New Guinea. SIL Electronic Working Papers. https://www.sil.org/resources/publications/entry/42109 Campbell, Eric W. 2013. The internal diversification and subgrouping of Chatino. International Journal of American Linguistics, 79(3), 395?420. DOI: 10.1086/670924 Campbell, Eric W. 2021. Why is tone change still poorly understood, and how might documentation of less-studied tone languages help? In Patience Epps, Danny Law & Na'ama Pat-El (eds.), Historical Linguistics and Endangered Languages: Exploring Diversity in Language Change. New York & London: Routledge. DOI:10.4324/9780429030390 Coetzee, Andries W., Patrice Speeter Beddor, Kerby Shedden, Will Styler & Daan Wissing. 2018. Plosive voicing in Afrikaans: Differential cue weighting and tonogenesis. 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On Reconstructing Tone in Proto-Niger-Congo. UC Berkeley PhonLab Annual Report, 12. DOI:10.5070/P7121040722 Janda, Richard D. & Brian D. Joseph. 2003. On language, change, and language change ? or, of history, linguistics, and historical linguistics. In Brian D. Joseph & Richard D. Janda (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, pp. 3-180. Blackwell. Kaufman, Terrence. forthcoming. Comparative Oto-Mangean grammar research: Phonology, aspect-mood marking, valency changers, nominalizers on verbs, numerals, pronouns, deictics, interrogatives, adpositionoids, noun classifiers, noun inflexion, compounds, word order, and diversification model. In Wichmann, S?ren (ed.), Languages and linguistics of Mexico and Northern Central America: a comprehensive guide. De Gruyter Mouton. Kie?ling, Roland. 2004. Tonogenesis in Southern Cushitic (Common West Rift). In Rose-Juliet Anyanwu (ed.), Stress and Tone ? the African Experience, 141-163. (Frankfurter Afrikanistische Bl?tter 15). 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Proto-Mixtecan. Indiana University. Manaster-Ramer, Alexis. 1986. Genesis of Hopi tones. International Journal of American Linguistics 52(2), 154-160. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1265374 Matisoff, James. 2001. Genetic versus contact relationship: Prosodic diffusibility in South-East Asian languages. In Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald & R.M.W. Dixon (eds.), Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance: Problems in Comparative Linguistics, 291?327. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Morey, Stephen. 2005. Tonal change in the Tai languages of Northeast India. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 28(2), 139?202. Ratliff, Martha. 2015. Tonoexodus, tonogenesis, and tone change. In Honeybone, Patrick & Joseph Salmons (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 245-261. Rensch, Calvin R. 1968. Proto Chinantec phonology. Papeles de la Chinantla 6. M?xico, D.F: Museo Nacional de Antropolog?a. Rensch, Calvin R. 1976. Comparative Otomanguean Phonology. 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URL: From B.Los at ed.ac.uk Thu Oct 26 10:20:46 2023 From: B.Los at ed.ac.uk (Bettelou Los) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 14:20:46 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] PhD studentship Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics, Edinburgh, UK Message-ID: Dear HistLing members, The Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics, of the School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences of the University of Edinburgh (UK), is advertising a fully paid PhD position, the McIntosh-Patterson PhD Studentship. This studentship includes full-time tuition fees (UK/EU or overseas level) with an annual stipend for three years. The successful applicant's primary research focus is expected to be on any aspect of historical linguistics that is within the expertise of the staff of Linguistics and English Language at Edinburgh; see https://www.ed.ac.uk/ppls/linguistics-and-english-language/people/academic-staff . Successful applicants will have a very good undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline and ideally will have, or will be studying for, a postgraduate master's degree (or equivalent). Deadline: 13 November 2023. Details about the studentship: https://www.ed.ac.uk/ppls/linguistics-and-english-language/prospective/postgraduate/lel-phd-programme/funding-research-students/mcintosh-patterson-phd-studentship Details about the application: https://www.ed.ac.uk/ppls/linguistics-and-english-language/prospective/postgraduate/lel-phd-programme. Applicants should mention in their personal statement that they are applying for the McIntosh-Patterson PhD Studentship. Best wishes, Bettelou Los, Director of the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics 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 andres.enrique at uib.es Fri Dec 15 21:42:36 2023 From: andres.enrique at uib.es (=?utf-8?B?QW5kcsOpcyBFbnJpcXVlIEFyaWFz?=) Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2023 02:42:36 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Call for contributions edited volume: On the spatial diffusion of linguistic changes: new methods and theoretical perspectives Message-ID: Call for contributions edited volume: On the spatial diffusion of linguistic changes: new methods and theoretical perspectives In the recent years the study of language variation from a geographical perspective has become the subject of renewed interest. Linguistic typology has highlighted the importance of linguistic areas upon the observation that the centuries-old coexistence of languages ??in the same geographical space results in their sharing structural properties. At the same time, new developments in the study of language ??and dialect contact and bilingualism have enriched the theoretical frameworks related to the study of linguistic changes across space. Likewise, the creation of new corpora and databases that allow accessing historical data of individual languages sorted by geographical origin is facilitating the creation of renewed historical investigations that consider the spatial factor. Finally, the availability of digital tools (such as OpenStreetMap) and the capabilities afforded by massive geolocalized data from social media apps offer unprecedented possibilities for observing the diffusion of changes in real time. Taking advantage of the aforementioned advances, this volume seeks to take a new look at the interplay between geographical variation and language change. In sum, scholars are invited to contribute their original and unpublished research on the topic of the spatial diffusion of linguistic changes. Researchers interested in participating in the volume are invited to send a title and a short provisional abstract of max. 300 words. The proposed schedule for publication is as follows: January 11, 2024: Send email to andres.enrique at uib.es to express interest in contributing to the volume April 1, 2024: Manuscripts due June 1, 2024: Double-blind peer review completed June 15, 2024: Notification of acceptance July 31, 2024: Corrections/revisions due November 1, 2024: Book manuscript submitted to publisher Please note that all manuscripts will be reviewed by the editors and two external reviewers before a decision for inclusion in the volume is made. The volume is expected to be published in early 2025. Manuscripts should be written in English, using LSA format and style, and should not exceed 8,000 words, including references and tables. Submissions may be sent as Microsoft Word documents to the editors, Andr?s Enrique-Arias, Carlota de Benito Merino, or Florencio del Barrio at the following addresses: andres.enrique at uib.es carlota.debenitomoreno at uzh.ch fbarrio at unive.it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chiara.zanchi01 at unipv.it Wed Dec 20 04:49:46 2023 From: chiara.zanchi01 at unipv.it (Chiara Zanchi) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 10:49:46 +0100 Subject: [Histling-l] Save the date: 6th Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics Message-ID: Dear colleagues, may I kindly ask you to announce the *6th Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics *to the histling subscribers? Please find the relative message below. With my warmest wishes for Christmas holidays, Chiara ========= **SAVE THE DATE** The Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics will return in 2024 for its 6th edition! [image: ??] Date: [2-7 September, 2024] [image: ?] Location: University of Pavia Participation in the Summer School, including active participation in the Poster Session, stands for 3 ECTS. Courses and instructors: Course 1: Anatolian - Guglielmo Inglese (University of Turin) Course 2: Mycenaean - Daniel K?lligan (Julius-Maximilians-Universit?t W?rzburg) Course 3: Avestan - Benedikt Peschl (Freie Universit?t Berlin) Course 4: Italic - Michael Weiss (Cornell University) Course 5: Comparative Indo-European poetics - Riccardo Ginevra (UCSC Milan) Invited lecture: title tba - Volker Heyd (University of Helsinki) At the following link, you will find practical information about the school schedule, travel and housing, as well as course materials for download: https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Funipv-larl%2F6th-Pavia-International-Summer-School-for-Indo-European-Linguistics%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2jRBvKjQJA03rkr7dnjcs0tgsE_ui1WrxJhXj24DgtHEXmWFAPlxGjziA&data=05%7C02%7Chistling-l%40mailman.yale.edu%7Cff1c34b3f49e4fca9fc008dc014113b0%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638386626214983371%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=O%2BRTTL8j51MyzevvZpeTDVtt%2FnkOC6dv2ObMeHOZUpY%3D&reserved=0 If you want to stay updated and receive news about the summer school, sign up to the mailing list by filling out the following form: https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.gle%2F2NhkVYcjGFwPLg546&data=05%7C02%7Chistling-l%40mailman.yale.edu%7Cff1c34b3f49e4fca9fc008dc014113b0%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638386626214983371%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=WEyMVUe%2Bnzdv8jP8kZhI%2F4LJRAmECzIawjA6QpR1s5w%3D&reserved=0 Applications will open in early 2024. 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