From laura.dees at uzh.ch Wed Jan 3 11:02:32 2024 From: laura.dees at uzh.ch (Laura Dees) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2024 16:02:32 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] CfP Workshop Diachronic Dynamics and Typology of Similarity and Identity Avoidance Message-ID: Dear colleagues, We would like to share with you the call for papers for our workshop called "Diachronic Dynamics and Typology of Similarity and Identity Avoidance". Best regards, Laura Dees, on behalf of Erika Just, Catalina Torres, Thomas Huber University of Zurich, Department of Comparative Language Science ______ Call for papers: Diachronic Dynamics and Typology of Similarity and Identity Avoidance. September 12/13 2024, Poznan, as part of the 21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL). Languages often exhibit the avoidance of identity, or of similarity to some extent. Similarity and identity avoidance (SIA) can affect units on various linguistic levels, from phonetics to semantics. Different mechanisms have been proposed to be at the heart of SIA: the motor control system has been held accountable for the dispreference of adjacent identical syllables. Haplology has been explained as a strategy for maintaining isomorphism between syllables and morphemes, for ease of processing. Lexical similarity avoidance, on the other hand, has been associated with working memory and accessibility. However, others see SIA through the lens of communicative efficiency, and explain it by the idea that similarity/identity on all levels can interfere with production and perception. Previous research has primarily focused on certain languages and families, often within specific linguistic theories. Consequently, there are claims about universal tendencies underlying this phenomenon, which makes it worthwhile to explore it in a broader linguistic context. Besides, the diachronic dimension is often missing. This workshop aims to discuss patterns and strategies employed by languages to avoid or resolve similarity and identity, in order to get to a better understanding of its causes. It intends to bring together perspectives from different subfields, ranging from typology to diachrony and cognition. We invite abstracts for oral presentations focusing on the following topics: Diachrony: How do languages employ strategies to avoid or resolve identity or similarity in diachrony? How does similarity avoidance relate to assimilation phenomena? Phonetic Patterns: How do the phonetic properties of sounds, such as place and manner of articulation, influence SIA in adjacent elements within speech? What acoustic and auditory cues are involved in phonetic processes that facilitate or hinder SIA? Cross-Linguistic Variation: Do languages show variable sensitivity to different kinds of similarity? Are there preferences in the positions where avoidance or resolution occurs, and do these preferences vary across structural levels? Unit Size: Do languages exhibit restrictions on the size of linguistic units affected by similarity avoidance? For instance, is the occurrence of dissimilation strategies related to the syllable count within larger units like feet or verbs? Mechanisms and biases: What cognitive and motor planning factors contribute to this phenomenon on different linguistic levels? Is there more systematic and cognition-based evidence that identity avoidance improves efficiency? Experimental Approaches: What kind of experimental evidence or approach is helpful investigating SIA? Can we experimentally demonstrate a preference against similarity or identity in language structures? The extended deadline for abstract submission is 1 February 2024 (12.00 PM CET). For a more detailed call and information on where and how to submit, please refer to the conference website: https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ficl2024poznan.pl%2F%3Fid%3D2&data=05%7C02%7Chistling-l%40mailman.yale.edu%7C2da45d34164f4c9863b608dc0c7567f5%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638398945606443816%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=VBaedCdTNSqm1yxAG9LdKIrcZkTiYi5%2FbSSHbQ%2B128U%3D&reserved=0. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From johncharles.smith at stcatz.ox.ac.uk Mon Jan 8 04:05:13 2024 From: johncharles.smith at stcatz.ox.ac.uk (John Charles Smith) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2024 09:05:13 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] =?cp1250?q?ICL_21=2C_Pozna=F1_2024?= Message-ID: A Happy New Year to all members of the HistLing List! The organizers of the 21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL), which will be held from 8 to 14 September 2024 in Pozna?, Poland, have contacted me, as convenor of the section on Historical Linguistics, to announce that the deadline for abstracts has been extended to 1 February. I am therefore recirculating the Call for Papers. The section on Historical Linguistics, which is scheduled for the Monday and Tuesday (9-10 September), will aim to reflect the current strengths and preoccupations of the discipline. Abstracts are invited for papers on any aspect of language change, including, but not limited to, structural change (changes in phonology, morphology, and syntax); semantic and pragmatic change; language contact; cladistics; sociolinguistic factors in change; and language acquisition and change. 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 can be found on the Congress web site, at https://icl2024poznan.pl/ ). The deadline for abstract submission is 1 February 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). Posters will be displayed for one full day. Separate time slots will be included in the programme during which participants can discuss posters with their authors. Each abstract will be refereed anonymously by two reviewers. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 15 April 2024. Further information can be found on the ICL web site, at https://icl2024poznan.pl/ . I look forward to seeing many of you in Pozna?. With all good wishes, John Charles Smith ? 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 robin.meyer at unil.ch Tue Jan 9 06:57:01 2024 From: robin.meyer at unil.ch (Robin Meyer) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2024 11:57:01 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] CfP: Language and Identity in Antiquity Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Please find attached a Call for Papers for a conference on Language and Identity in Antiquity. This conference aims to explore the relationship(s) between language(s) and identity for individuals and groups of people (of any size and shape) in the polities bordering on the Mediterranean Sea and their neighbours in a purposefully wide timeframe of between 2000 BCE and 1000 CE. Where: Universit? de Lausanne, Switzerland When: 19?20 July 2024 Deadline: 1 March 2024 Languages: English, French Details: https://unil.ch/languageidentity/ Remaining at your disposal for any and all questions, and with best wishes for the New Year, Robin ___________ Robin MEYER Professeur assistant en linguistique diachronique Directeur, Centre de linguistique et des sciences du langage Associate Editor, Journal of Indo-European Studies Universit? de Lausanne Section des sciences du langage et de l'information Anthropole ? bureau 3141.3 CH?1015 Lausanne Suisse -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Meeting Description: This workshop explores the relationship between alignment and argument morphosyntax. Alignment is defined as the morphosyntactic realization of arguments in a language. Argument morphosyntax, on the other hand, is taken to involve at least two dimensions of grammar, argumenthood and transitivity prominence. Argumenthood is a cover term for the morphosyntactic properties characteristic of the core arguments of verbal predicates, while transitivity prominence is the extent to which the verbal predicates in a language show the same morphosyntactic marking as core transitive verbs. Alignment and argumenthood have been intensively explored from the early to mid-1970s onward, a research endeavour that has resulted in an extensive body of research output (cf. e.g., Dixon 1972, 1995, Keenan 1976, Falk 2006, the papers in Donohue and Wichmann (eds.) 2008, Coon et al. (eds.) 2017 and in Dahl (ed.) 2022). Transitivity prominence, on the other hand, has received systematic scholarly attention in relatively recent times (cf. e.g., Bossong 1998, Say 2014, 2017, Haspelmath 2015, Creissels 2018a, 2018b). However, although these works have greatly enhanced our understanding of the three domains of argument morphosyntax, it largely remains unexplored how they interact synchronically and diachronically. For example, Falk's (2006) important study makes a strong case for the claim that some types of subject properties (e.g., control. raising) show an alignment-based alternation in their selection of core argument anchoring, which in some languages is based on an accusatively oriented (S/A) profile and in others on an ergatively oriented one (S/P). Other subject properties (e.g., imperative addressee, anaphoric prominence) invariably show an accusatively oriented anchoring across languages and thus are not sensitive to differences in alignment. From a diachronic perspective, this seems to indicate that certain types of alignment properties enhance the grammaticalization of certain subjecthood features, a hypothesis that would be in line with the results of recent investigations into the relationship between grammaticalization and typology (e.g., Narrog 2017, Narrog and Heine (eds.) 2018, Narrog and Heine 2021). Based on a scrutiny of data from a selection of archaic Indo-European languages, Cotticelli and Dahl (2022) argue that there may be a correlation between a high degree of consistency in accusatively oriented case-marking and verb agreement, notably absence of split alignment, and a rich inventory of subjecthood properties. However, their analysis is based on a rather limited comparative basis and restricted to languages with predominantly nominative-accusative alignment, so that more detailed study is needed to arrive at firmer conclusions about interactions between alignment and subjecthood, diachronically and synchronically. Finally, transitivity prominence is a somewhat new field of research but it seems likely that it systematically interacts with subjecthood, on one hand, and alignment type on the other. Final Call for Papers: Deadline for abstract submission extended to 1 February 2024. This workshop aims to bring together scholars interested in alignment, argumenthood, and transitivity prominence to clarify how these three dimensions interact synchronically and diachronically. One set of open questions concerns the synchronic relations between them. For example, it remains to be systematically explored on a broad empirical basis how robust correlations between certain types of alignment systems and certain types of argument properties like the ones identified by Falk (2006) are. A related question is whether there are any systematic differences between languages with split alignment systems and languages with more unitary systems with regard to the inventory of subjecthood properties, as suggested by the observations in Cotticelli and Dahl (2022). A third problem concerns whether there are any correlations between the productivity of oblique arguments and/or non-canonical agreement patterns, that is, transitivity prominence, and consistency in alignment, on one hand, or subjecthood properties, on the other. Another set of problems concerns the diachronic interaction between these dimensions. As pointed out by Creissels (2018a), a common type of split alignment arises as a consequence of newly emerging tense/aspect constructions, e.g., progressive or resultative/anterior categories, which often arise from nominal constructions (c.f., also Dahl 2021). Creissels (2018a) also notes that there is a tendency across languages to generalize one alignment pattern, which he labels 'the obligatory coding principle', which among other things has the effect of leveling out cases of split alignment. It remains an open question in what ways this tendency interacts with other tendencies in the shaping of language-specific alignment systems (cf., however, Dahl 2021 for some pertinent observations). Another, related question concerns the diachrony of argumenthood properties. particularly to what extent certain types of alignment patterns and/or systems facilitate the grammaticalization of certain types of morphosyntactic features characteristic of core arguments. Comparative data discussed in Cotticelli and Dahl (2022) show that even genetically closely related languages show remarkable variation as to what properties constitute subject features, suggesting that argumenthood constitutes a dynamic and emerging realm of grammar rather than a stable inherited set of features in a language family. A third set of problems relate to changes in relative transitivity prominence and to what extent argument realization patterns become more unitary over time or not. Since transitivity prominence is still relatively understudied, it remains largely unexplored whether and to what extent changes in alignment and/or argumenthood impacts the relative transitivity prominence. We invite contributions exploring these and related questions. A detailed workshop description with references is found at https://eysdah1.web.amu.edu.pl/events/. Abstracts should be submitted via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icl2024poznan) and adhere to the general ICL guidelines (https://icl2024poznan.pl/?id=2). Deadline for abstract submission is 1 February 2024 (12.00 PM CET). Notification of acceptance will be given by 15. April 2024. All best wishes, Eystein Dahl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From linpb at cc.au.dk Wed Jan 10 15:31:59 2024 From: linpb at cc.au.dk (Peter Bakker) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 20:31:59 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] histling-l Digest, Vol 124, Issue 2: creoles In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: News on creoles: four calls for papers, one call for peace Here are some calls for papers and more news about creole studies. (1) POZNAN, sept. 8-14, deadline February 1: Section on Linguistic Diversity, Language Contact and Areal Typology. Focus on creoles. (2) Leiden Workshop on Creole Languages (WoCL), May 23 and 24 2024. Deadline Jan. 15, 2024 (3) Annual Meeting of the Association of Portuguese and Spanish Lexified Creoles (ACBLPE), S?o Tom?. Deadline: 19-Jan-2024 (4) Paris. CfP: Workshop at the LLcD Conference (Langues et langage ? la crois?e des disciplines), 9-11 September 2024 (Sorbonne Universit?, Paris). Deadline: January 2024. (5) Guyana, SPCL/SCL, 5-9 August 2024. Society for Caribbean Linguistics (SCL), in conjunction with SPCL (6) Guyana and historical creolistics on Lingoblog.dk/en 1. POZNAN, sept. 8-14, deadline February 1: Section on Linguistic Diversity, Language Contact and Areal Typology. Focus on creoles. Once every five years, there is the International Congress of Linguists (ICL). The 21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL) will take 8?14 September 2024 in Pozna?, Poland. The first took place in 1928 in The Hague, Netherlands. We would like to invite interested scholars to send an abstract for the Section on Linguistic Diversity, Language Contact and Areal Typology, taking place on September 9 and 10. This section brings together ideas and opinions about contact-induced language change. Typological atlases such as the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS.info) and the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (APiCS-online.info) have triggered increased attention for areal phenomena in language contact and contact languages. The new GRAMBANK site (grambank.clld.org) makes even more data available. Such databases enable researchers to map language influences across language borders. New computational techniques are available to work with large databases. In typical linguistic area, a range of common features can be identified (e.g. the Balkan, India, Central America) across language families, but even the most characteristic features rarely coincide with the boundaries of the defined area. Why is that? Properties of language families can be studied around their borders in order to investigate contact phenomena. Languages located far away from the center of the family may both more conservative and more innovative around the boundaries, and one can wonder why. Some areal phenomena are found on both sides of geographical barriers such as mountain ranges, bodies of water and deserts. An increasing number of studies identify more properties that creole languages have in common, more than continuities from the lexifiers or influences from the supposed substrates. Explanations for the similarities range from continuity from undocumented dialects of the lexifier, cognitive unity of humans, general typological similarities of the substrate languages around the world to the presence of ?scattered Sprachbund? areas even across oceans. If creoles indeed have more in common with each other than with other natural languages, why would that be the case? Does language contact increase or decrease diversity? Can we identify different contact phenomena in areas of widespread bilingualism compared to areas of massive language shift? For this section, we invite contributions relating to diversity, language contact and areal typology, including for contact languages pidgins, creoles and mixed languages. Abstracts submission. The deadline for abstract submission is 1 February 2024. It will not be possible to add other abstracts after the deadline. The Easychair link for abstract submission is available on both websites https://ciplnet.com/news/call-for-papers-and-workshop-proposals/ and https://icl2024poznan.pl/?id=2. 1. Leiden Workshop on Creole Languages (WoCL), May 23 and 24 2024. Deadline Jan. 15, 2024 We are pleased to announce the Leiden Workshop on Creole Languages (WoCL), which will be held at Leiden University on May 22, 2024. Deadline: This workshop aims to bring together researchers who share an interest in the study of creole languages. We invite abstracts that investigate empirical data from any field (syntax, semantics, phonology, morphology, sociolinguistics). Priority will be given to papers which adopt a comparative approach. This includes comparisons among creole languages, as well as comparisons of creoles with other languages, related or unrelated. The workshop will be followed by the Leiden/Bielefeld Workshop on Comparative Syntax (LeiBieCos), which takes place in at Leiden University on May 23 and 24. In case you are interested to submit to both workshops, you can find their call for papers here (https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2024/05/leiden-bielefeld-workshop-on-comparative-syntax-leibiecos). Each talk lasts 20 minutes and is followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Keynote speaker: The keynote speaker is Marlyse Baptista (University of Pennsylvania). Please send an anonymous abstract (maximally 1 as author and 1 as co-author). Your abstract should be written in English and be no longer than two pages, including references and examples, with margins of at least 2.5 cm (1 inch), font size 12, single spaced. The format should be pdf. Abstracts are to be submitted via EasyAbs (https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/wocl). 1. Annual Meeting of the Association of Portuguese and Spanish Lexified Creoles (ACBLPE), S?o Tom?. Deadline: 19-Jan-2024 Meeting Description: The Annual Meeting of the Association of Portuguese and Spanish Lexified Creoles (ACBLPE) will be held on the 1st to 3rd of July 2024, in the city of S?o Tom?, S?o Tom? and Pr?ncipe, in partnership with the University of S?o Tom? and Pr?ncipe (USTP) and the Portuguese Cultural Center (CCP), which will host the event. The meeting will be in person only. Call for Papers: We welcome proposals in the area of language contact involving Portuguese and/or Spanish in any part of the world, including proposals related to the varieties of Portuguese spoken in Africa, in particular in the field of education, as well as proposals related to the revitalization of minority creole languages. Accepted talks will have an estimated duration of 30 minutes. Abstracts should be written in Portuguese, Spanish, French or English, with a limit of 500 words, excluding references and examples, and sent to acblpe at gmail.com in both Word and PDF, with the format: title ? summary ? (examples) ? references. Do not include your name and affiliation in the abstract itself. The subject of the email should contain ?Abstract ACBLPE 2024?; in the body of the email, include the following data: author(s), academic affiliation(s), email contact(s), title of the abstract. 1. Paris. CfP: Workshop at the LLcD Conference (Langues et langage ? la crois?e des disciplines), 9-11 September 2024 (Sorbonne Universit?, Paris). Deadline: January 2024. Conference URL: https://llcd2024.sciencesconf.org/ Workshop title: Subordination in Creole languages Workshop organizers: Stefano Manfredi (SeDyL, UMR 8202, CNRS, IRD, INALCO) Susanne Maria Michaelis (Leipzig University & MPI-EVA, Leipzig) Sibylle Kriegel (Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, LPL, Aix-en-Provence, France) Nicolas Quint (LLACAN, UMR 8135, CNRS/EPHE/INALCO) Workshop description: While many studies have explored and compared the morphosyntactic and semantic aspects of subordination in various linguistic areas and language families (Frajzyngier 1996; Kortmann 1996; van der Auwera 1998; Caron 2008), research on subordinated clauses in Creole languages remains limited. The conceptualization of subordinate clauses as semantically hierarchical structures (Van Valin & LaPolla 1997; Nordstr?m 2010; Cristofaro 2003) entails the definition of other grammatical notions, such as ?finiteness?, ?dependency?, ?embeddedness, ?hypo-/parataxis? and, more generally, raises the question of how we define ?syntactic complexity? cross-linguistically. Furthermore, the comparative validity of the previously mentioned notions varies according to the adoption of different theoretical frameworks (e.g., functional grammar vs. generative grammar) as well as to language-dependent factors (Comrie 2008, Haspelmath 2010). This workshop aims at gathering researchers working on Creole languages with different lexifiers (English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic) and featuring diverse substrate/adstrate languages (e.g. Niger-Congo, Oceanic, Nilo-Saharan) in order to contribute to the debate on the definition of semantic and morphosyntactic parameters for comparing subordinate clauses cross-linguistically. Indeed, because of the particular historical dynamics of their emergence and the role played by language contact in their linguistic development, Creole languages raise a number of questions related to the grammaticalization of adverbial, complement, and relative clauses as well as to the formal parameters to be used for defining subordinate clauses (e.g., presence/absence of subordinating devices, TAM marking, presence/absence of pronominal arguments). In this context, the increasing availability of corpus-driven descriptions (see Vieira Semedo 2021, Duzerol forth.) and linguistic databases (Manfredi and Quint forth.) of subordination constructions in Creole languages open new descriptive and comparative perspectives on this highly variable syntactic domain. In the light of the above, submissions to the workshop may include in-depth case studies of the syntax of subordinate clauses in individual Creole languages as well as presentations with a more comparative focus. We welcome both synchronically and diachronically-oriented studies of subordinate clauses in Creole languages. More generally, the workshop seeks to answer a range of questions related to the following domains of research: - Morphosyntactic comparison of subordinated clauses: How can we better compare the morphosyntactic encoding of adverbial, complement, and relative subordinating relations across Creole languages? Are ?finiteness? and ?embeddedness? valuable morphosyntactic notions for the comparison of subordination in Creole languages (cf. Mufwene and Dijkhoff 1989; Cristofaro 2003; Nikolaeva 2007)? - Grammaticalization of subordinating devices (subordinators, complementizers, and relators): Do subordinating devices present shared grammaticalization paths across Creole languages? To what extent is the grammaticalization of subordinating devices in Creole languages affected by the semantics and typological profile of their substrate/adstrate/superstrate languages (cf. Michaelis and Haspelmath 2020) ? To what extent does the ?overlay function? of subordinators (cf. Kortmann 1997) affect their grammaticalization in Creole languages? - Mood, modality, and subordination: What is the diachronic link between the grammatical expression of mood and modality and the morphosyntactic encoding of subordinating relations (cf. Frajzyngier 1996; Nordstr?m 2010) in one or more Creole languages? How do Creole languages grammaticalize and convey equivalents of a subjunctive mood in subordinated clauses? - Morphosyntactic variation of subordinated clauses: What are the main sociolinguistic variables producing morphosyntactic variation of subordinated clauses in one or more Creole Languages (cf. Deuber 2005 for Nigerian Pidgin)? What are the main grammatical factors producing language-dependent variation of subordinated clauses in one or more Creole Languages? - Typological considerations: Do Creole languages typologically differ from non-creole languages in the domain of subordination (cf. Van der Auwera 1998; Bakker et al. 2011; McWhorter 2018)? To what extent does first/second language acquisition affect the grammaticalization of subordinated clauses in Creole languages (cf. Diessel 2004; Veenstra 2015)? - Linguistic databases and corpora: How can we ensure cross-linguistic comparability of subordinated clauses while giving information about language-dependent syntactic variation by means of linguistic databases (cf. Michaelis et al. 2013; Manfredi and Quint forth.)? How can corpus-driven analyses of subordination contribute to the broader typological comparison of subordinate clauses? Submission guidelines We are inviting abstracts for 20-minute presentations (French or English) that address essential aspects of subordination in Creole languages, both from a descriptive and comparative perspective. To participate, please submit preliminary abstracts (300 words, in docx format, including your affiliation) to the workshop organizers by 20 January 2024, at one of the following email addresses: stefano.manfredi at cnrs.fr or susanne.michaelis@uni-leipzig.de. This workshop proposal has not yet been accepted by the conference organizers. We will submit it together with your preliminary abstracts by the end of January 2024. References Bakker, P., A. Daval-Markussen, M. Parkvall and I. Plag. 2011. Creoles are typologically distinct from non-creoles. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 26: 5-42. Caron, B. (ed.). 2008. Subordination, d?pendance et parataxe dans les langues africaines. Louvain: Peeters. Comrie, B. 2008. Subordination, coordination: Form, semantics, pragmatics. In: E. Vajda (ed.), Subordination and Coordination Strategies in North Asian Languages. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, pp. 1-16. Cristofaro, S. 2003. Subordination. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Deuber, D. 2005. Nigerian Pidgin in Lagos: Language contact, variation and change in an African urban setting. Diessel, H. 2004. The Acquisition of Complex Sentences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Duzerol, M. forthcoming. La compl?mentation et la relativisation en martiniquais (cr?ole, Martinique) : une ?tude de corpus [PhD dissertation]. Lyon: Universit? Louis Lumi?re. Frajzyngier, Z. 1996. Grammaticalization of Complex Sentence : A Case Study in Chadic. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Hapelmath, M. 2010. Comparative Concepts and Descriptive Categories in Cross-Linguistic Studies. Language 86, pp. 663-687 Kortmann, B. 1996. Adverbial Subordination: A Typology and History of Adverbial Subordinators Based on European Languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Manfredi, S. and N. Quint (eds.), forth. SCrolL ? The database of Subordination in Creole Languages. CNRS, HumaNum. McWhorter, J. 2018. The Creole Debate. Cambridge University Press. Michaelis, S. M., P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath and M. Huber (eds.) 2013. Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Michaelis, S. M. and M. Haspelmath. 2020. Grammaticalization in creole languages: Accelerated functionalization and semantic imitation. In W. Bisang and A. Malchukov (eds.), Volume 2 Grammaticalization Scenarios from Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2020, pp. 1109-1128. Mufwene, S. and M. Dijkhoff. 1989. On the so-called ? infinitive ? in Atlantic Creoles. Lingua 77 Nikolaeva, I. (ed.). 2007. Finiteness: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations. Oxford: Oxford University Press Noonan, M. 1985. Complementation. In: T. Shopen (ed.), Language Typology and Syntactic Description. Cambridge University Press, pp. 42-140. Nordstr?m, J. 2010. Modality and Subordinators. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. van der Auwera, J. (ed.) 1998. Adverbial Constructions in Languages of Europe. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Van Valin, R. and R. LaPolla 1997. Syntax: Structure, Meaning, and Function. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Veenstra, T. 2015. The development of subordination. In A. Trotzke and J. Bayer (eds.), Syntactic Complexity across Interfaces. Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 137-162. Vieira Semedo, E. 2021. Frase complexa em cabo-verdiano (variedade de Santiago) : um estudo da integra??o entre cl?usulas) [PhD dissertation]. Paris: INALCO. 1. Guyana, SPCL/SCL, 5-9 August 2024. Society for Caribbean Linguistics (SCL), in conjunction with SPCL Society for Caribbean Linguistics Conference 2024. Conferences of the SCL welcome and encourage the participation of scholars, students, educators, writers, and the general public. Sessions include presentations, workshops, colloquia, poster sessions, and plenary addresses. The conferences provide many informal and meaningful opportunities for linguistic discussion. Conferences are held every two years, and have been held in all the UWI campus territories (Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago), as well as in Aruba, the Bahamas, Belize, Cura?ao, Dominica, Guyana, St. Lucia, St. Maarten and Suriname. Upcoming: SCL 25th Biennial Conference (Guyana), 5-9 August, 2024, in collaboration with the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics The SCL call can be found here: https://www.scl-online.net/Conferences/index.htm The SPCL Call for Papers will be out soon. 1. Guyana and historical creolistics on Lingoblog.dk/en It has, unfortunately, become fashionable in different parts of the world to invade neighboring countries by military force. One of the most recent threats is the claim of Venezuela on large parts of its neighbor Guyana. Venezuela sees itself as a continuation of the Spanish colonial empire, this time desiring the black gold. Here you can read two blog posts, based especially on the pioneering historical work of the eminent Guyana creolist Ian Robertson, on the presence of Dutch-lexifier creoles in the region, and the absence of any direct Spanish influence. Spread the word. https://www.lingoblog.dk/en/the-role-of-extinct-languages-in-the-venezuela-guyana-conflict/ https://www.lingoblog.dk/en/can-we-linguists-prevent-a-war-how-can-linguistic-research-establish-whether-venezuela-could-have-some-kind-of-right-to-claim-parts-of-guyana/ (Lingoblog.dk regularly posts about creole languages and sign languages; creolists and linguists from the global south can subscribe for free (in fact everybody can?), then you get a message when there is a new post). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From linpb at cc.au.dk Thu Jan 25 16:24:44 2024 From: linpb at cc.au.dk (Peter Bakker) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 21:24:44 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] POZNAN, sept. 8-14, deadline February 1: Section on Linguistic Diversity, Language Contact and Areal Typology. Focus on creoles. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 1. POZNAN, sept. 8-14, deadline February 1: Section on Linguistic Diversity, Language Contact and Areal Typology. Focus on creoles. Once every five years, there is the International Congress of Linguists (ICL). The 21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL) will take 8?14 September 2024 in Pozna?, Poland. The first took place in 1928 in The Hague, Netherlands. We would like to invite interested scholars to send an abstract for the Section on Linguistic Diversity, Language Contact and Areal Typology, taking place on September 9 and 10. This section brings together ideas and opinions about contact-induced language change. Typological atlases such as the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS.info) and the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (APiCS-online.info) have triggered increased attention for areal phenomena in language contact and contact languages. The new GRAMBANK site (grambank.clld.org) makes even more data available. Such databases enable researchers to map language influences across language borders. New computational techniques are available to work with large databases. In typical linguistic area, a range of common features can be identified (e.g. the Balkan, India, Central America) across language families, but even the most characteristic features rarely coincide with the boundaries of the defined area. Why is that? Properties of language families can be studied around their borders in order to investigate contact phenomena. Languages located far away from the center of the family may both more conservative and more innovative around the boundaries, and one can wonder why. Some areal phenomena are found on both sides of geographical barriers such as mountain ranges, bodies of water and deserts. An increasing number of studies identify more properties that creole languages have in common, more than continuities from the lexifiers or influences from the supposed substrates. Explanations for the similarities range from continuity from undocumented dialects of the lexifier, cognitive unity of humans, general typological similarities of the substrate languages around the world to the presence of ?scattered Sprachbund? areas even across oceans. If creoles indeed have more in common with each other than with other natural languages, why would that be the case? Does language contact increase or decrease diversity? Can we identify different contact phenomena in areas of widespread bilingualism compared to areas of massive language shift? For this section, we invite contributions relating to diversity, language contact and areal typology, including for contact languages pidgins, creoles and mixed languages. Abstracts submission. The deadline for abstract submission is 1 February 2024. It will not be possible to add other abstracts after the deadline. 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The University of Graz is hosting a *summer school on Computational Language Technologies for Medievalists from 8th to 12th July 2024. *This five-day program will equip participants with essential skills in Natural Language Processing (NLP) specifically tailored to the challenges of working with medieval languages. The curriculum covers areas like *topic modeling, text re-use, authorship attribution, stylometry, and large language models*, all taught through hands-on exercises and real-world applications. Additionally, pre-school learning materials are available to provide foundational knowledge for those new to NLP. Application deadline is March 15, 2024. We believe this summer school could greatly benefit students at your institution who are interested in leveraging technology to enhance their research in medieval studies. We would be incredibly grateful if you could share the attached announcement with your relevant departments, student groups, and communication channels. For further information and the application link, please visit our website: https://didip.eu/nlp-summer-school-2024 Thank you for your time and consideration. We look forward to welcoming students from your institution to the summer school! Sincerely, ERC DiDip Team https://didip.hypotheses.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From q.atkinson at auckland.ac.nz Mon Feb 19 20:01:39 2024 From: q.atkinson at auckland.ac.nz (Quentin Atkinson) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 01:01:39 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Survey on Sound Change Message-ID: <25A197D3-91D4-4AE6-B50D-624EAC41A54C@auckland.ac.nz> Dear Colleagues, You are invited to participate in a short ~5 minute survey on sound change. We are an interdisciplinary team of researchers interested in understanding the current views of prominent scholars on the process of sound change. To better understand views that may be commonly held but rarely written down, we have created a short ~5 minute survey aimed at targeting several long-standing debates in our field. Should you choose to provide additional explanation in optional text boxes, the survey may take a few minutes longer. Your responses will help develop an understanding of how common different positions are regarding these major debates, how much disagreement exists, and what factors predict respondents? positions on specific issues. To reach a wide range of scholars, thus covering the diverse opinions across our field, we are forwarding an invitation to participate in our research through this server list so that anyone who wishes to can decide to participate. The survey contains both fixed responses and open responses that allow you to express your views in more detail if you wish. Should you decide to participate, as a thank you for your time, you can go in the draw to win one of 10 $50 Amazon gift vouchers. You are welcome to request a summary of our findings by emailing q.atkinson at auckland.ac.nz . To participate, follow this link to the survey: https://auckland.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e2jzEXLrG6zk3qu Please feel free to forward this email on to colleagues who may also be interested in participating. Thanks! If you have any questions or issues with the survey, please contact our staff at q.atkinson at auckland.ac.nz . Best wishes to all, Quentin Atkinson Remco Bouckaert Jordan Douglas Russell Gray Mattis List Mary Walworth Approved by the University of Auckland Human Participants Ethics Committee on 10/10/2023 for three years. Reference Number: UAHPEC26714. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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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. 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We are looking for seminars on any aspect of the ancient or pre-colonial worlds, including history, archaeology, language, literature, cultural heritage or reception, that address innovative digital approaches to research, teaching, dissemination or engagement. We are particularly interested in proposals for seminars that think about digital capital, models of labour and credit, and community engagement with heritage and antiquity. Seminars will be held fortnightly through June and July in the Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London, and will be simultaneously streamed to remote audiences on Youtube, but we hope most speakers will be physically present in London. We have a small budget to support travel for speakers within the UK. Please send an abstract of 300 words to > (clearly marked Digital Classicist London?) by the end of Sunday March 17, 2024. 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Instructions on how to register can be found on the school's website: https://github.com/.../6th-Pavia-International.../tree/main (look for Registration) The registration fee is 100? and covers tuition, lunches, and coffee breaks. *? Important Dates:* - Registration Opens: March 1, 2024 - Registration Closes: June 30, 2024 - Summer School Dates: September 2-7, 2024 For detailed information about the program, schedule, and accommodation options, please visit the school's website. We look forward to welcoming you in Pavia! Chiara Zanchi and Erica Biagetti -- [image: LOGO-UNIPV] Chiara Zanchi Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici Ricercatrice a tempo determinato in Glottologia e Linguistica (L/LIN-01) Piazza del Lino, 2 - 27100 Pavia (Italia) T. +390382984495 https://unipv.unifind.cineca.it/individual?uri=http%3A%2F%2Firises.unipv.it%2Fresource%2Fperson%2F704324 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Warm regards, The Organisers ---- 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... URL: From n.puddu at unica.it Mon Mar 18 11:16:06 2024 From: n.puddu at unica.it (n.puddu at unica.it) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:16:06 +0100 Subject: [Histling-l] Summer School in Languages and Linguistics of the Mediterranean Message-ID: <20240318161606.Horde.JaJFxVHq4ry6fdctlimWlDp@webmail.unica.it> Dear all, the second Summer School in Languages and Linguistics of the Mediterranean will be held in Cagliari (Italy) from 3 to 7 June 2024. Paraphrasing what has been said for other disciplines, there are plenty of important studies on languages in the Mediterranean, but there are very few which are actually about Mediterranean languages. The LLM School aims to fill the need to use an empirical approach to examine the product of thousands of years of language contact in this unique geo-anthropic context and to analyse these results from a 'holistic' but anti-essentialist perspective which does not adhere to any preconstituted theory. The school?s main aim is to promote research into the languages of the Mediterranean and the contact-induced phenomena which, in the course of very long-lasting traditions, arose and continue to arise in many cases. Studies are carried out from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective and this edition focuses on the Latin-Romance tradition. The linguistics courses offer a comprehensive overview of studies on the languages of the Mediterranean. Various theoretical approaches will be proposed to deal with the problems of language contact, especially in the historical and diachronic dimension. Indeed, partly because the spread of writing in the Mediterranean region dates back to extremely ancient times, the region offers an extremely rich and extensive linguistic tradition, which is both long-lasting and genetically differentiated. Therefore, the Mediterranean is a privileged observatory for historical-diachronic studies of relatively long periods. On this occasion, the focus will be placed on the Latin Romance linguistic tradition. Two broad thematic lines will be developed in this edition. The first is dedicated to the analysis of linguistic varieties from a structural and functional point of view; the second line is dedicated to the analysis of socio- and pragma-linguistic dynamics in a historical perspective. Specific attention will be dedicated to the genesis of Romance languages, in the specific context of so-called Mediterranean Romania, and to the progressive definition of the 'normed' varieties in their relationship with writing during the various phases of the Middle Ages. Minimum Education Level: BA Tuition Early bird (before April 30th): 150.0 EURO Full fee (from May 1st): 200 EURO Fees include tuition and all materials Registration until 15-May-2024 Registration form: https://llm.unica.it/registration/ website: https://llm.unica.it/ Email: llm at unica.it Looking forward to meeting you in Cagliari! 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Warm regards, The Organisers ---- 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... URL: From vorqueda at uc.cl Mon May 13 16:36:22 2024 From: vorqueda at uc.cl (Veronica Mariel Orqueda) Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 20:36:22 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] ICHL27, 18-22 August 2025 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear colleagues, It's a pleasure to invite you to the next ICHL conference, to be held in Santiago de Chile, from 18th to 22th August, 2025. Call for Workshop proposals We invite proposals for workshops on all sub-fields of Historical Linguistics, all languages and approaches (descriptive, theoretical, empirical, interdisciplinary, etc.). Proposals should include a descriptive tittle, main text and references. The maximum length for the proposal (excluding references) is 500 words. Workshop presentations will be given in English or Spanish. Papers that are not accepted as part of a Workshop may also be submitted for the general sessions. Deadline for proposals submission: June 29th, 2024.? For more information, see https://ichl27santiago.cl/ (still under construction) or contact us: contacto at ichl27santiago.cl, or vorqueda at uc.cl Looking forward to meeting you, Ver?nica No sienta la obligaci?n de contestar este mail fuera de horario laboral. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML 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 _________________________________ Extra round of CIPL Travel Grants for ICL2024, 8-14 September Pozna? The Permanent International Committee of Linguists/Comit? International Permament des Linguistes (CIPL) announces an additional round of five travel grants of ? 500 each (approx. US$ 550) for participation at the International Congress of Linguists, ICL2024, which will take place in Pozna?, Poland, from 8-14 September 2024. ICL 2024 is organized by Adam Mickieiwcz University Pozna? in collaboration with CIPL. Advanced students in linguistics without a Ph. D. are eligible to receive a grant to help fund their participation at this world conference of linguists. The procedure used for the two annual rounds also applies to this extra round. Be careful: the deadline is June 22, 2024 and the notification will take place as soon as possible in early July. The standard form must also be completed, however, section B can be skipped because it is not relevant to this conference. Contact: camiel.hamans at ciplnet.com or hamans at telfort.nl ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chiara.gianollo at unibo.it Fri May 24 06:59:31 2024 From: chiara.gianollo at unibo.it (Chiara Gianollo) Date: Fri, 24 May 2024 10:59:31 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Formal Diachronic Semantics (FoDS) 9, 28-29 November 2024 Message-ID: <9AEFD1E3-D75B-4ED3-8F5A-9E020C46E94E@unibo.it> FoDS ? Formal Diachronic Semantics brings together scholars interested in the exploration of the semantic and pragmatic aspects of diachronic processes in natural languages from a formal perspective. FoDS has been meeting yearly since 2016. The next conference will take place at the University of Bologna on November 28-29, 2024. Invited Speakers: Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam) Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Conference website: https://eventi.unibo.it/fods-formal-diachronic-semantics-9 Important dates: Abstract submission deadline: June 30, 2024 Notification of decision: by July 31, 2024 Conference: November 28-29, 2024 Call for Papers: We invite submission of abstracts for 30-minute oral presentations (with an additional 10 minutes for questions) or poster presentations on topics that address semantic change from within the paradigm of formal semantics/pragmatics. These may include case studies, studies of trends, corpus results, as well as formal theories of meaning change in specific domains. We also welcome research at the interfaces with syntax and other areas, as long as the research makes a contribution to the area of formal diachronic semantics. We welcome papers that address methodological questions in the field. Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per author (or two joint abstracts per author). Abstracts must be anonymous, in PDF format, 2 pages (A4 or letter), in a font size no less than 12pt, and with margins of 1 inch/2.5cm. Please submit abstracts by e-mail to fods9 at live.unibo.it no later than June 30, 2024. Notifications of the outcome of the review process will reach the authors by the end of July 2024. ------------------------- Chiara Gianollo Alma Mater Studiorum - Universit? di Bologna Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Italianistica Studio 21 Via Zamboni 32 40126 Bologna Tel. +39 051 2098562 https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/chiara.gianollo/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Marwan Kilani, Robin Meyer, Neige Rochant ___________ Robin MEYER Professeur assistant en linguistique diachronique Directeur, Centre de linguistique et des sciences du langage Associate Editor, Journal of Indo-European Studies Universit? de Lausanne Section des sciences du langage et de l'information Anthropole ? bureau 3141.3 CH?1015 Lausanne Suisse -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From erica.biagetti at unipv.it Tue Jun 25 03:35:57 2024 From: erica.biagetti at unipv.it (Erica Biagetti) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:35:57 +0200 Subject: [Histling-l] 6th Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European linguistics Message-ID: Registration for the *6th Pavia Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics* is open until *June 30, 2024*! The summer school will be held from *September 2 to September 7, 2024* at the *University of Pavia*. It will feature five courses, one invited lecture, and a poster session, in which students will be able to present their own research. Participation in the Summer School, including active participation in the Poster Session, stands for *3 ECTS*. Courses - 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: *Indo-European Mythology and Poetics* - Riccardo Ginevra (UCSC Milan) - Invited lecture: *The Yamnaya Impact on Prehistoric Europe* - Volker Heyd (University of Helsinki) Admission We invite PhD students, as well as Postdocs and other young researchers. Advanced MA students will also be considered for admission, based on a written statement of their motivation for attending the school. 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Kind regards, ICHL27 Organizing Committee No sienta la obligaci?n de contestar este mail fuera de horario laboral. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From robin.meyer at unil.ch Mon Jul 1 10:50:56 2024 From: robin.meyer at unil.ch (Robin Meyer) Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 14:50:56 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Call for Chapters: "Language and Identity in Antiquity" Message-ID: Dear colleagues, In the hope that this message may find you well, please find attached a call for chapters for a multilingual volume (en, fr, de, it) on ?Language and Identity in Antiquity? (broadly conceived). Please send your expressions of interests and queries of a more general nature to me. The deadline for abstracts is 30 August 2024. With many thanks and all best wishes, Robin - ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Call for Chapters: ?Language and Identity in Antiquity? Editors: Victoria B. Fendel, Robin Meyer, Antoine Viredaz This multilingual volume seeks to explore the relationship(s) between language(s) and identity(/ies) for individuals and groups of people (of any size and shape) in the polities bordering on the Mediterranean Sea and their neighbours in antiquity and beyond. Since correlations between language and identity are prone to changing diachronically and being highly variable synchronically, we have chosen a purposefully wide timeframe of between 2000 BCE and 1000 CE. We want to move away from deterministic discourses such as ?one language ? one nation? or ?multilingualism as a problem? which no longer reflect our understanding of language in society. Rather, we view identity as ?multifaceted, fluid and dynamic, and thus constantly being constructed and (re)negotiated, and as both an individual and social phenomenon? (Bennett and Fisher 2022: 16). This approach reflects, broadly speaking, a post-structuralist idea of identity: As a semiotic system, language is, on the one hand, a tool to construct identity, and, on the other hand, one of many emblems of identity choice (cf. Halliday and Webster 2007: 255). However, not all language choices are intentional and not all identity cues are interpreted by one?s environment in the intended way (cf. Block 2022: 187; Foucault 1981). While production and perception experiments, interviews assessing attitudes, and longitudinal studies are possible for modern spoken languages, these approaches and the type and detail of information they provide are often lacking for corpus languages. Questions of interest include the following, where ?language choices? refer both to choosing between what is usually termed languages as well as between varieties of the same language: ? How and/or why can language choices reflect identity choices? What factors impact? What types of identities can be reflected? ? To what extent does context influence language and identity choices? Are there synchronic and/or diachronic correlations? Are there systems adopted by individuals and/or groups that regulate this? ? To what extent do language choices not reflect identity choices (e.g. in the sense of Labov?s indicators)? What identities are imposed on language users due to their language choices (cf. Block 2022; Duff 2022)? ? What aspects of language are manipulated in order to reflect identity choices? Are any aspects immune? Are any aspects specifically prone to it? We are particularly interested in contributions that ? showcase interdisciplinary approaches; ? are data-driven and adhere to the FAIR use of data; ? connect past and present theories with a clear vision or in an established framework; ? include non-Indo-European language data. Expressions of interest (in English, French, German or Italian), including an abstract not exceeding 500 words (excl. references), should be sent to Robin Meyer (robin.meyer at unil.ch) by 30 August 2024. Final and complete drafts of the chapters accepted will be expected for submission by 25 April 2025. The editors intend to publish the volume in Open Access. References Ayres-Bennett, Wendy, and Fisher, Linda (eds). Multilingualism and Identity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Block, David. ?Seeking Methodological Rigour in Language and Identity Research: Applying a Version of Positioning Theory to a Research Interview Excerpt?. In: Ayres-Bennett, Wendy, and Fisher, Linda (eds), Multilingualism and Identity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 181?200. Duff, Patricia. ?Multilingualism(s), Globalization and Identity: Learning ?Chinese? as an Additional Language?. In: Ayres-Bennett, Wendy, and Fisher, Linda (eds), Multilingualism and Identity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 261?279. Foucault, Michel. ?The order of discourse?. In: Young, Robert (ed.), Untying the text: A post- structuralist reader. London: Routledge, 1981, pp. 51?78. Halliday, Michael, and Webster, Jonathan. Language and Society. London: Bloomsbury, 2007. ___________ Robin MEYER Professeur assistant en linguistique diachronique Directeur, Centre de linguistique et des sciences du langage Associate Editor, Journal of Indo-European Studies Universit? de Lausanne Section des sciences du langage et de l'information Anthropole ? bureau 3141.3 CH?1015 Lausanne Suisse -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia! *Call for Abstracts* *NARNiHS 2025North American Research Network in Historical SociolinguisticsSeventh Annual Meeting* *100% IN PERSONCo-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting* *Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA9-12 January 2025* We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars from related fields from our global scholarly community (in addition to North America) to join us in Philadelphia for our Seventh Annual Meeting. *Abstract submission deadline: Friday, 16 August 2024, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time.* Please see our call for abstracts below and send us your latest work in historical sociolinguistics! ?????????? Call for Abstracts ?????????? The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its Seventh Annual Meeting (NARNiHS 2025) in Philadelphia, Thursday, January 9 ? Sunday, January 12, 2025. Deadline for receipt of abstracts: Friday, 16 August 2024, 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 also point (c) below). General Requirements: 1) Abstracts must be submitted electronically, using the following link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NARNiHS_2025/ 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. Abstract Format Guidelines: a) Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. b) 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. c) Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes it is not possible to attain complete anonymity, but there is a difference between ?inability to anonymize completely? (due to the nature of the research) and ?careless non-anonymizing? (for example: ?In Jones 2021, I describe??). In addition, be sure to anonymize your PDF file (you may do so in Adobe Acrobat Reader by clicking on ?File?, then ?Properties?, removing your name if it appears in the ?Author? line of the ?Description? tab, and re-saving before submitting it). Please be aware that abstract file names might not be automatically anonymized by the system; do not use your name (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf) when saving your abstract in PDF format, rather, use non-identifying information (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe_NARNiHS.pdf). Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. Papers that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible (whether in the text of the abstract or in the metadata of the digital file) risk being rejected. Contact us at *NARNiHistSoc at gmail.com * with any questions. 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Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano) * Piek Vossen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) The conference will also feature a dedicated panel on *WordNet for ancient languages*. For detailed information, including the call for papers, program, registration, accommodation, and more, please visit the conference website: https://unipv-larl.github.io/GWC2025/. To keep updated, you can also follow the official social profiles of the GWC2025. You can find us on X (https://x.com/gwc2025pavia), Instagram ( https://www.instagram.com/gwc2025pavia?igsh=MWZxY21raDJtam96cg==) and Telegram (https://t.me/gwc2025pavia). Please share this announcement with your colleagues and networks. Should you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at gwc2025pavia at unipv.it. We look forward to your participation! Best regards, Chiara Zanchi (on behalf of the members of the local organizing committee, Erica Biagetti, Luca Brigada Villa, C. 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Since we want to arrange catering for lunch and coffee breaks, it would be very helpful if you could register before Friday 9 August at knapen at gea.mpg.de Registration is free. For registration of online participation, please use the following link https://eu02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jNLzaTXmSXS8146KgnWfFw#/registration We hope you find room in your busy agendas to attend. You are very welcome. Best wishes, Martine and Martijn Prof. Dr. habil Martine Robbeets Language and the Anthropocene Research Group Leader Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology Kahlaische Strasse 10 07745 Jena, Germany Honorary Professor Department of Linguistic Typology Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany https://www.eurasia3angle.com http://www.gea.mpg.de/100886/eurasia3angle_group?seite=1 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From clairebowern at gmail.com Fri Jul 26 14:21:53 2024 From: clairebowern at gmail.com (Claire Bowern) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 14:21:53 -0400 Subject: [Histling-l] Fwd: HiSoN 2025 CfP In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: James Hawkey <0000d158c378801d-dmarc-request at jiscmail.ac.uk> Date: Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 10:38?AM Subject: HiSoN 2025 CfP To: Dear colleagues, We are now accepting abstracts for the next Historical Sociolinguistics Network Conference, which is taking place at the University of Bristol from 21 to 23 May 2025. Please find the Call for Papers below. *The deadline for submitting abstracts is 1 October 2024.* Further details about the conference will be posted on the conference website in due course: https://hison2025.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/. We are looking forward to your abstracts! Best wishes, Anna & James *Conference theme: HiSoN 20 years on: past, present, future* The 20-year anniversary edition of the historical sociolinguistics network conference is taking place *at the University of Bristol (UK) from 21 to 23 May 2025.* In 2005, Nils Langer, Stephan Elspa?, Joachim Scharloth, and Wim Vandenbussche organised a conference on* Language History from Below: Linguistic Variation in the Germanic Languages from 1700?2000* at the University of Bristol, which led to the foundation of the *Historical Sociolinguistic Network*. Since then, research in historical sociolinguistics has flourished and the network has grown beyond its Germanic roots. At the 20-year anniversary edition of the Historical Sociolinguistics Network Conference, we will return to and build on the study of language history ?from below? by looking at current trends in historical sociolinguistic research, such as the study of historical multilingualism and research on linguistic impacts of colonialism, to identify future directions of the field. Over the past decades, historical sociolinguistics has grown and diversified considerably, contributing to our increasingly multifaceted understanding of language histories. We would like to take this opportunity to return to origins of the Historical Sociolinguistics Network, both geographically and figuratively. The first conference sought to offer an alternative to the traditional historiography of the Germanic languages by moving beyond ?teleological and isolationist approaches? that ?focused on standard or prestige varieties?. This view ?from below? has undergone significant development in scope, having moved beyond its original Germanic focus, and this conference will provide a moment for us all to reflect and take stock. Where have we come from ? how are the original aims of the Network reflected in our current practice? Where are we now ? how can we use historical sociolinguistic theories and methods to address current challenges? And where are we going ? how will our discipline grow and adapt in an ever-changing world? We invite suggestions for papers *dealing with aspects of language and society in the past*. Topics and (sub)disciplines might include, but are not limited to: ? Language variation and change ? Historical multilingualism, language contact, and multilingual practices ? Language maintenance, language shift and heritage languages ? Language standardization, norms, prescriptivism and purism ? Language policy and planning in the past ? Language ideologies, beliefs and attitudes in the past ? Language history ?from below? ? Historical text types, registers, genres and domains ? Methods for historical sociolinguists, including corpus linguistics ? Historical dialectology and geolinguistics ? Historical pragmatics and discourse analysis ? History of linguistics and history of language teaching. All papers need to include historical as well as sociolinguistic aspects. We welcome abstracts for two different formats (individual papers and thematic panels): *Individual papers* are formal presentations on original research by one or more authors, who will be allotted 30-minute slots at the conference (20 minutes for presentation plus 10 minutes for discussion). Abstracts for individual paper presentations must not exceed 500 words (incl. title and references). *Thematic panels, roundtables *or* workshops* should follow the 30-minute structure of the conference. We have a strong preference for shorter, focused events (e.g. an introductory paper, 3?4 papers by different contributors, and a final discussion). Panel convenors are expected to invite contributors and discussants in advance, and submit *one* full proposal. This proposal includes the overall aims and rationale of the event (max. 500 words) as well as the names, affiliations, and short abstracts of 200?300 words for each contribution (incl. introductory paper and/or final discussion). Please note that panel convenors take active responsibility for the quality of all contributions and are expected to guide their invited participants through the formal process as well as to chair the panel. *Keynote speakers:* Prof. Nils Langer (Europa-Universit?t Flensburg) Prof. Joanna Kopaczyk (University of Glasgow) Prof. Israel Sanz-S?nchez (West Chester University) Please submit your abstract via https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/HiSoN2025/. The deadline for submitting abstracts is *1 October 2024*. We anticipate that notifications about the outcome of proposals will be sent on 16 December 2024. Please contact us if you have any questions: hison-conference2025 at bristol.ac.uk Conference organisers: Anna Havinga & James Hawkey, School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol ------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the HISON list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=HISON&A=1 ------------------------------ The Variationist List - discussion of everything related to variationist sociolinguistics. To send messages to the VAR-L list (subscribers only), write to: VAR-L at JISCMAIL.AC.UK To unsubscribe from the VAR-L list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=VAR-L&A=1 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From camador at unex.es Tue Aug 6 06:02:15 2024 From: camador at unex.es (Carolina Pilar Amador Moreno) Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2024 10:02:15 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] RV: NARNiHS 2025 Annual Conference [2nd call] In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Just a reminder that the deadline for the NARNiHS Annual Meeting in 2025 is getting close: North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) 2025 Annual Meeting: Call for abstracts 2nd Call for Abstracts NARNiHS 2025 North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics Seventh Annual Meeting 100% IN PERSON Co-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 9-12 January 2025 We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars from related fields from our global scholarly community (in addition to North America) to join us in Philadelphia for our Seventh Annual Meeting. Abstract submission deadline: Friday, 16 August 2024, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time. Please see our call for abstracts below and send us your latest work in historical sociolinguistics! ?????????? Call for Abstracts ?????????? The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its Seventh Annual Meeting (NARNiHS 2025) in Philadelphia, Thursday, January 9 ? Sunday, January 12, 2025. Deadline for receipt of abstracts: Friday, 16 August 2024, 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 also point (c) below). General Requirements: 1) Abstracts must be submitted electronically, using the following link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NARNiHS_2025/ 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. Abstract Format Guidelines: a) Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. b) 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. c) Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes it is not possible to attain complete anonymity, but there is a difference between ?inability to anonymize completely? (due to the nature of the research) and ?careless non-anonymizing? (for example: ?In Jones 2021, I describe??). In addition, be sure to anonymize your PDF file (you may do so in Adobe Acrobat Reader by clicking on ?File?, then ?Properties?, removing your name if it appears in the ?Author? line of the ?Description? tab, and re-saving before submitting it). Please be aware that abstract file names might not be automatically anonymized by the system; do not use your name (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf) when saving your abstract in PDF format, rather, use non-identifying information (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe_NARNiHS.pdf). Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. Papers that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible (whether in the text of the abstract or in the metadata of the digital file) risk being rejected. Contact us at NARNiHistSoc at gmail.com with any questions. We look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia! 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We look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia! *Call for Abstracts* *NARNiHS 2025North American Research Network in Historical SociolinguisticsSeventh Annual Meeting* *100% IN PERSONCo-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting* *Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA9-12 January 2025* We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars from related fields from our global scholarly community (in addition to North America) to join us in Philadelphia for our Seventh Annual Meeting. *NEW abstract submission deadline: Friday, 30 August 2024, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time.* Please see our call for abstracts below and send us your latest work in historical sociolinguistics! ?????????? Call for Abstracts ?????????? The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its Seventh Annual Meeting (NARNiHS 2025) in Philadelphia, Thursday, January 9 ? Sunday, January 12, 2025. *NEW! deadline for receipt of abstracts: Friday, 30 August 2024, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time.* 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 also point (c) below). General Requirements: 1) Abstracts must be submitted electronically, using the following link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NARNiHS_2025/ 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. Abstract Format Guidelines: a) Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. b) 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. c) Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes it is not possible to attain complete anonymity, but there is a difference between ?inability to anonymize completely? (due to the nature of the research) and ?careless non-anonymizing? (for example: ?In Jones 2021, I describe??). In addition, be sure to anonymize your PDF file (you may do so in Adobe Acrobat Reader by clicking on ?File?, then ?Properties?, removing your name if it appears in the ?Author? line of the ?Description? tab, and re-saving before submitting it). Please be aware that abstract file names might not be automatically anonymized by the system; do not use your name (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf) when saving your abstract in PDF format, rather, use non-identifying information (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe_NARNiHS.pdf). Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. Papers that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible (whether in the text of the abstract or in the metadata of the digital file) risk being rejected. Contact us at *NARNiHistSoc at gmail.com * with any questions. 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We encourage abstracts from PhD students working on any aspect of the Ancient World, including but not limited to: * Ancient History * Literature * Linguistics * Philosophy * Archaeology * Art History * Epigraphy * Papyrology * Digital Classics * Reception studies * Comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to antiquity Submission Guidelines: * Abstracts (in English) must not exceed 300 words. * Abstracts must include the title of your paper, a concise overview of your research, and the methodological approach involved. * Please provide your name, institutional affiliation, and contact details. * Please send your abstracts as a single PDF or Word document to daniele.borkowski.23[at]ucl.ac.uk and andrea.farina[at]ucl.ac.uk with the following subject line: "UCL Lyceum Seminar Abstract Submission". * Deadline for submissions: 22 September 2024. Further Details: * Location: all seminars will be held online via Zoom. The first and the last seminar of each term will be held with a hybrid format (both online and at UCL) with a catered event for students to meet and discuss their projects in person. Details of the dates will be available in the ?Programme? section of our website. * Duration: seminars will consist of a 30-minutes presentation, followed by a 15 minutes discussion. * Notification of acceptance: 24 September 2024. For any inquiries, please contact the convenors: Daniele Borkowski (daniele.borkowski.23[at]ucl.ac.uk) or Andrea Farina (andrea.farina[at]ucl.ac.uk). We look forward to receiving your abstracts and to another year of enriching discussions at the UCL Lyceum Seminar Series! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tamas.kovacs at uni-graz.at Tue Sep 3 07:00:00 2024 From: tamas.kovacs at uni-graz.at (=?UTF-8?B?S292w6FjcyBUYW3DoXM=?=) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0200 Subject: [Histling-l] Call for Papers: Distant Diplomatics at IMC 2025 Message-ID: "Worlds of Learning" Through Digital Approaches to Late Medieval Charters The Department of Digital Humanities at the University of Graz, host of the European Research Council-funded project "From Digital to Distant Diplomatics" (DiDip), invites submissions for a series of sessions at the International Medieval Congress 2025, exploring the conference theme "Worlds of Learning" through innovative Digital Humanities approaches to late mediaeval charters (c. 1300-1500). Charters are "Words of Learning" - for contemporaries learning about legal activities and status, and for mediaeval studies scholars, sources of their own learning. Digital methods provide entirely new learnings: on the charters themselves and on the actors writing, using, and keeping charters. Our sessions aim to demonstrate how computational methods can fundamentally transform and expand our understanding of documentary practices and knowledge transmission across Europe. We welcome papers on the following topics: 1. Computer Vision and Medieval Charters: New Perspectives on Visual Learning - How can computer vision techniques reveal patterns in the visual aspects of charters across regions and time? - Applications of machine learning algorithms to identify and analyse layout, script styles, and graphical elements (seals, monograms) in large datasets of digitised charters. 2. Natural Language Processing and Charter Formulas: Tracing Textual Learning Networks - Computational analysis of charter texts using NLP techniques to uncover patterns in formulaic language, legal terminology, and scribal practices. - Exploration of networks of textual learning and the dissemination of documentary conventions across linguistic and cultural boundaries. 3. Data Visualisation and Medieval Charter Networks: Mapping Knowledge Circulation - Application of network analysis, GIS mapping, and other visualisation methods to represent relationships between chanceries, scribes, and document types. - New insights into the "worlds of learning" in charter production through data visualisation techniques. 4. Digital Methodologies and Medieval Charters: Innovative Approaches to Documentary Learning - How can digital editions enhance our understanding of charter creation, use, and preservation? What insights can database creation and management offer into the organisation and retrieval of mediaeval documentary knowledge? - Applications of XML/TEI encoding for semantic analysis of charter content and structure. - Exploration of linked data approaches to connect charter information across different collections and archives. By applying state-of-the-art computational methods to the study of late mediaeval charters, we aim to contribute to a more interconnected and nuanced understanding of European documentary cultures and the transmission of specialised knowledge in this period. Submission Guidelines: - Please submit a 100-word abstract of your proposed contribution and a brief CV. - Send submissions to didip at uni-graz.at (Subject: IMC2025) - Deadline: September 16th, 2024 We look forward to your contributions to these exciting intersections of medieval studies and digital humanities! ERC DiDip Team -- DDr. Tam?s Kov?cs, Ph.D. Postdoctoral researcher (ERC DiDiP project) - Department of Digital Humanities University of Graz A-8010 Graz | Elisabethstra?e 59/III Tel.: +43 (0)316 380 - 5771 < https://online.uni-graz.at/kfu_online/wbForschungsportal.cbShowPortal?pPersonNr=132119 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From robin.meyer at unil.ch Wed Sep 4 04:18:00 2024 From: robin.meyer at unil.ch (Robin Meyer) Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 08:18:00 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] CfP: The Comparative Method is not enough: Innovating Historical Linguistic Methodology (WS @ ICHL27, Santiago de Chile) Message-ID: The Comparative Method is not enough: Innovating Historical Linguistic Methodology (WS @ ICHL27, Santiago de Chile, 18?22 August 2025) What if historical linguistics had been conceived of not in Germany, but in Chile or Tanzania? The linguistic, socio-historical, and geo-political realities of 19th-century Europe have doubtlessly shaped the assumptions and approach of the Comparative Method as developed by researchers from Bopp to Schleicher. Although consistently employed in essentially this form ever since, already at the end of the 19th century, elements of the method and some of its presuppositions were called into question by Schuchardt (1885) and others. Since then, with the broadening of linguistic horizons beyond ?classical? languages, it has become evident that other extra- or paralinguistic factors also have a significant impact on language change, be they variationist (Chambers & Trudgill 1998), relating to contact (Weinreich 1953; Fishman et al. 1971; Thomason 2008; Sinnem?ki fthc.), or constraining from a typological perspective (Greenberg 1966; Walkden et al. 2023). Even more fundamentally, the traditional comparative method only considers phonological change and does not concern itself with the lexicon, morphology, or syntax. While still a useful tool in many cases and from a macroscopic perspective, it is nevertheless clear that the Comparative Method alone is no longer enough to answer the questions that have emerged recently from these new insights. Rather, the Comparative Method needs to be integrated with a wider, holistic approach that moves away from assuming rigid and ideal regularity, exceptionlessness and universality. This approach more centrally takes into account multilingual dynamics, in particular of language ecologies outside of Europe and the Global North (Meyer 2023; Marten fthc.). In this way, our conceptualisation of language change is reoriented from a deterministic to a more probabilistic model that can work with and account for multiple dimensions ? contact, sociolinguistics, typology, and uncertainty. Since the recent addition of genetic and archaeological data and methods to the consideration of language change (Heggarty et al. 2023), it is imperative and timely to also re-evaluate the soundness of the basic linguistic methods that are used. This workshop seeks to bring together researchers at any career stage interested in the methodological and epistemological questions entailed by going beyond the Comparative Method to a more current, holistic understanding of and approach to language change ? a New Comparative Method. The following questions serve as guidelines, but other questions on the same subject are very welcome: * What historical biases need to be considered in order to understand the origins of and issues with the Comparative Method? * How can contact-induced and non-contact-induced change be modelled? Should the tree analogy be replaced? * What role do typological constraints play in language change and how can they be integrated into a model thereof? * What mathematical models are available to test and operationalise such a multifactorial method? * What does a holistic approach mean for well-established cases where the traditional method is believed to work well (e.g. Indo-European languages)? * Most fundamentally: what is it that we actually reconstruct? Can we reconstruct phoneme and morpheme inventories, syntax, indeed whole languages ? or are we only doing linguistic ?algebra?? References Chambers, J. K. and Trudgill, P. (1998). Dialectology (2nd edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Fishman, J. A., Cooper, R., and Newman, R. (1971). Bilingualism in the Barrio. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. Greenberg, J. H. (1966). Some universals of grammar with particular reference to the order of meaningful elements. In Greenberg, J. H. (ed.), Universals of Language: report of a conference held at Dobbs Ferry, New York, April 13?15 (2nd edition). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 73?113. Heggarty, P. et al. (2023) Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages. Science 381,eabg0818(2023). Marten, L. (forthcoming). Historical Linguistics and Ubuntu Translanguaging: Towards a model of multilingualism, language change and linguistic convergence in the Bantu Linguistic Area. In Jadranka Gvozdanovi? (ed.) Historical Linguistics 2023. Selected papers from the 26th ICHL, Heidelberg, 4?8 September 2023. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Meyer, R. (2023). Towards a Typology of Contact-Induced Change: Questions, Problems, and the Path Ahead. Transactions of the Philological Society, 121(3): 336?356. Sinnem?ki, K. et al. (forthcoming) A typological approach to language change in contact situations. Diachronica. Schuchardt, H. (1885). ?ber die Lautgesetze. Gegen die Junggrammatiker. Berlin: Robert Oppenheim. Thomason, S. G. (2008). Social and linguistic factors as predictors of contact-induced change. Journal of Language Contact, 2: 42?56. Walkden, G. et al. (2023) Sociolinguistic Typology Meets Historical Corpus Linguistics. Transactions of the Philological Society, 121(3): 546?567. Weinreich, U. (1953). Languages in Contact. The Hague: Mouton. Submission Relevant abstracts of no more than 800 words (excl. references) should be sent to Robin Meyer (robin.meyer at unil.ch) by 21 October 2024 in PDF format. Please note that workshops are in most cases restricted to 6 papers; all other papers, if accepted, will be given as part of the ICHL general sessions. Should there be sufficient interest for an extended workshop (up to 12 papers), we will lobby the local organisers to permit this format. Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/ichl27cm Organisation: Aicha Belkadi (SOAS University of London) Victoria B. Fendel (University of Oxford) Hannah Gibson (University of Essex) Charlotte Hemmings (University of Oxford) Marwan Kilani (Universit?t Basel) Christopher Lucas (SOAS University of London) Lutz Marten (SOAS University of London) Robin Meyer (Universit? de Lausanne) Teresa Poeta (University of Essex) Neige Rochant (Universit? de Lausanne) ___________ Robin MEYER Professeur assistant en linguistique diachronique Directeur, Centre de linguistique et des sciences du langage Associate Editor, Journal of Indo-European Studies Universit? de Lausanne Section des sciences du langage et de l'information Anthropole ? bureau 3141.3 CH?1015 Lausanne Suisse -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andres.enrique at uib.es Thu Sep 5 06:04:08 2024 From: andres.enrique at uib.es (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9s_Enrique_Arias?=) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 10:04:08 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Language corpora and dialectal variation in a historical perspective. WS @ ICHL27, Santiago de Chile, August 2025 Message-ID: Language corpora and dialectal variation in a historical perspective Workshop at ICHL27, Santiago de Chile, 18-22 August 2025 Organizers: Andr?s Enrique-Arias (University of the Balearic Islands), Marina Gomila Albal (Spanish National Research Council) Language change and dialectal variation are two fields of inquiry that have been strongly related to each other since the beginnings of linguistics as a scientific endeavor. Early efforts in historical linguistics tried to make sense of dialectal variation using different models of the diffusion of diachronic changes, such as the wave theory (Chambers & Trudgill 1980, Wolfram & Schilling-Estes 2003), or the principle of lateral areas (Bartoli 1925, Andersen 1988). Likewise, linguists soon became aware that the centuries-old coexistence of languages in the same geographical space results in their sharing structural properties, making it necessary to distinguish between language similarities arising from a genetic relationship from those arising from language contact (Muysken 2008; Noonan 2010). Further 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 (Kortmann 2003, Auer & Schmidt 2010). Against this backdrop, the availability of new corpora and databases that allow accessing historical data of individual languages sorted by geographical origin, along with the application of technological developments, such as GIS software, are facilitating renewed historical investigations that consider the spatial factor (Alcorn, Kopaczyk, Los & Molineaux 2019). The objective of this workshop is to explore the possibilities provided by historical corpora and analytical tools to the study of the interplay between geographical variation and language change. As such, we welcome the proposals of researchers working in historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, corpus linguistics, language contact, language typology and computational linguistics. Some suggested topics are: * Different models of visualization of language variants on the physical space. * Useful sources to create corpora for historical dialectology: historical documents, newspapers, toponyms, social networks. * Corpus-based investigations that illustrate with specific case studies the diffusion of linguistic changes on the physical space. * Methods to integrate spatial and social information onto historical corpora. * Application of computational techniques, such as probabilistic methods, to discern dialect areas in historical data. * Studies based on synchronic data (e.g. from online social networks) that can shed light onto historical processes. * Investigations that examine the spatial distribution of variants to tease apart linguistic features that have spread due to language contact from those resulting from an internal development. Abstracts of no more than 500 words (excluding references) should be sent to Andres Enrique-Arias (andres.enrique at uib.es) and Marina Gomila Albal (marina.gomila at cchs.csic.es) by 18 October 2024 in an editable format (i.e. Word, Open Office). Workshops are in principle restricted to six papers; all other papers, if accepted, will be considered for the ICHL general session. References: Alcorn, Rhona, Joanna Kopaczyk, Bettelou Los & Benjamin Molineaux, eds. 2019. Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Andersen, Henning. 1988. Center and periphery: adoption, diffusion, and spread. In Jacek Fisiak (ed.), Historical Dialectology, Regional and Social, 39-83. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Auer, Peter & J?rgen E. Schmidt, eds. 2010. Language and Space. An International Handbook of Linguistic Variation, 649-667. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Bartoli, Matteo G. 1925. Introduzione alla Neolinguistica (principi--scopi--metodi). Gen?ve: L.S. Olschki. Chambers, J.K.& Peter Trudgill. 1980. Dialectology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Kortmann, Bernd. 2003. Dialectology meets Typology: Dialect Grammar from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197327 Muysken, Pieter. 2008. From linguistic areas to areal linguistics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Noonan, Michael. 2010. Genetic Classification and Language Contact. In Raymond Hickey (ed.), The Handbook of Language Contact, 48-65. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. Wolfram, Walt & Natalie Schilling-Estes. 2003. Dialectology and Linguistic Diffusion. In Joseph Brian & Richard Janda (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, 713-735. Oxford: Blackwell. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marc.olivier at ling-phil.ox.ac.uk Fri Sep 6 10:38:58 2024 From: marc.olivier at ling-phil.ox.ac.uk (Marc Olivier) Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 14:38:58 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Call for Papers: Crosslinguistic perspectives on syntactic change in the diachrony of Romance Message-ID: Dear colleagues, We would like to bring to your attention a Call for Papers for a special issue of the Catalan Journal of Linguistics, entitled 'Crosslinguistic perspectives on syntactic change in the diachrony of Romance?. The syntax of Romance languages is one of the most thoroughly researched areas in both synchronic and diachronic linguistics. The generative enterprise provided a theoretical framework that was soon applied to canonical Romance languages, leading to studies that would significantly shape the field. As our understanding of Romance syntax deepened, the literature expanded to include minoritised varieties, thereby broadening the scope of the generative inquiry. Naturally, there has been a growing interest in exploring modern varieties through the lens of microvariation, while historical linguists adopted tools from this body of research to analyse the bridge from Latin to Romance and medieval varieties. Consequently, both diachronic change within single languages and synchronic variation in Romance languages are extensively studied, offering a thorough understanding of Romance syntax at several levels. This special issue addresses the lack of diachronic studies focusing on variation. Submitted papers must feature: (i) a diachronic study of one or several syntactic phenomena, (ii) a comparison between at least two Medieval Romance varieties, including, for instance, the analysis of contact phenomena, shared linguistic innovations, and the emergence of linguistic splits in geographically contiguous varieties, as well as the comparison of more distant varieties that exhibit interesting parallelisms, (iii) a theoretical approach to the evolution of syntax anchored in the generative tradition, with the aim of testing and redefining formal hypotheses. For more information about the journal and submission process, please go to https://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/announcement/view/8. The deadline is March, 1st 2025, and articles should be 20-25 pages. 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URL: From beckydpaterson at gmail.com Mon Sep 9 13:17:22 2024 From: beckydpaterson at gmail.com (Becky Paterson) Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2024 13:17:22 -0400 Subject: [Histling-l] Fwd: CfP: The associative construction and friends within Niger-Congo: When nouns unite (WS5 @ ICHL27, Santiago de Chile) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *WS Title*: The associative construction and friends within Niger-Congo: When nouns unite Workshop at ICHL27, Santiago de Chile, 18-22 August 2025 *Workshop Type*: in-person *Organizers*: Rebecca Paterson & Hugh Paterson III *Abstract Deadline*: October 18th *Abstract Details*: Maximum 800 words excluding references. *Submission*: Email PDF of abstracts to both r.paterson at princeton.edu and i at hp3.me *Note*: Workshops are in most cases restricted to 6 papers; all other papers, if accepted, will be given as part of the ICHL general sessions. If there is sufficient interest for an extended workshop (up to 12 papers), we will lobby the local organizers to permit this format. *Workshop Website*: https://hughandbecky.us/Becky-CV/project/ichl27-workshop-associative-construction/ *Conference Website*: https://ichl27santiago.cl *Publication*: We are pursuing publication via edited volume post-workshop. Please direct questions to Rebecca Paterson r.paterson at princeton.edu *Workshop description*: The associative construction and friends within Niger-Congo: When nouns unite The noun phrase is highly important to communication and is significant within historical-comparative work (e.g., wordlists). Noun phrase internal constituency and order is correlated with discourse pragmatics and sentence-level syntax in African languages (e.g., evolutionary syntax). We propose a workshop discussing and exploring the evolution of the range and forms of the associative construction both within and beyond the noun phrase. Across Niger-Congo, the common Noun-Noun construction (also known as the associative construction per Welmers, 1963; a.k.a., connective, e.g., Meeussen 1967; connexive, e.g., Schadeberg 1995:176, and genitive, e.g., Benson 2020) has different interpretive meanings and invokes a variety of morpho-phonological forms. These forms in turn have various information-structure implications and communicative impacts. The associative construction has been discussed for certain sub-branches of Niger-Congo (e.g., Bantu, see Van de Velde 2013). The full range of functions of Welmers? associative construction is little explored synchronically or diachronically. While the syntax of the structure is consistently [N Assoc N], variations on the form of the associative marker itself are diverse as seen in examples 1a-e where the form can take the shape of a low vowel, a low tone, or in some languages a high tone. The canonical form for Bantu is proposed as AG-a; that is, a root -a which is preceded by a noun class agreement prefix (Meeussen 1967), and later Van de Velde (2013: 219). The exact morpho-phonological shape of the construction varies from language to language. (1) a. Kagulu [kki] (Bantu; Tanzania; Petzell 2008: 86, as cited in Van de Velde 2013: 217) m-eji g-a mu-nyu 6-water AG6-CON 3-salt ?salt water? b. Swahili [swa] (Bantu; Welmers 1963: 433) maji y-a chumvi {water AG-ASSOC salt } ?salt water (water associated with salt)? c. ut-Ma?in [gel] (Kainji; Nigeria; Paterson 2019: 264) swa? d- ? =u-rwa?g nose AG5-ASSOC =C7-elephant ?elephant trunk? (??r-swa? ?C5-nose?; u?-rwa?g ?C7-elephant?) d. Kwakum [kwu] (Bantu; Cameroon; Louagie et al. 2023) nd?t?? ? -k???? big CON -fish ?the big fish? (~ the being big/bigness of the fish) e. Igbo [ibo] (Kwa; Nigeria; Welmers & Welmers 1969: 316) i?me? ?i?ko? inside cup ?inside of a cup? (i?me? ?inside?; i?ko? ?cup?; ASSOC conveyed by tonal downstep) Within the noun phrase, various semantic relationships or functions between the nouns are described for the associative construction including: possessive (example 3), part-whole (specific-general) (example 1-c.), material-composition (thing-compositional material) (example 2-a), person-place (person from a place), place of use, and time of use. At the clause level, these same constructions can convey semantics related to method, utility (material), location, time, and cause. (2) Swahili [swa] (Bantu; Welmers 1963: 433) material: nyumba z-a mawe ?houses made of stone? material: alikifanya kw-a mti ?he made it out of wood? (3) Mumuye [mzm] (Adamawa; Shimizu 1983, as in Cahill 2000: 37) ki?n + kpa?n?ti? ?> ki?n? kpa?n?ti? chicken chief ?chief?s chicken? The [N Assoc N] construction therefore sits at the apex of phonological, syntactic, and semantic evolution. The evolution of semantic uses (Evans 2012: 201) may affect clauses on different evolutionary trajectories from morpho-phonological sound changes. Therefore, the rather productive and promiscuous associative construction can become involved in independent evolutionary trajectories, e.g., phonological sound changes and semantic uses. The proposed workshop welcomes studies which illustrate the associative construction from any Niger-Congo language, from a historical-comparative or internal-reconstruction perspective. Of particular interest are those studies which discuss the evolution of forms or functions related to noun-noun constructions from Gur, Adamawa, Dogon, Ubangi, and other purported Niger-Congo branches with constructions parallel to identified associative constructions in other branches. *References* Benson, Peace. 2020. ?A Description of Dz? (Jenjo) Nouns and Noun Phrases, an Adamawa Language of Northeastern Nigeria.? Asian and African Studies (Publication of Saint Petersburg State University) 12 (4): 490?504. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2020.402. Cahill, Michael. 2000. ?Tonal Associative Morphemes in Optimality Theory.? VARIA: Working Papers in Linguistics 53: 31?70. https://linguistics.osu.edu/research/pubs/papers/archive Evans, V. 2010. ?Evolution of Semantics.? In Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language and Linguistics, edited by Alex Barber and Robert J. Stainton, 196?204. Oxford; Boston: Elsevier. Louagie, Dana, Elisabeth Njantcho Kouagang, and Mark Van de Velde. 2023. ?Kwakum Nominal Expressions: Constructional Exuberance.? Presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Athens, Greece. Meeussen, Achille Emile. 1967. ?Bantu Grammatical Reconstructions.? Africana Linguistica 3 (1): 79?121. https://doi.org/10.3406/aflin.1967.873. Paterson, Rebecca Dow Smith. 2019. ?Nominalization and Predication in U?t-Ma?in.? Doctoral dissertation, Eugene, Oregon: University of Oregon. Scholarsbank - University of Oregon. https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/25259. Shimizu, Kiyoshi. 1983. The Zing Dialect of Mumuye: A Descriptive Grammar with a Mumuye-English Dictionary and an English-Mumuye Index. Hamburg: Helmut Buske. Van De Velde, Mark. 2013. ?The Bantu Connective Construction.? In The Genitive, edited by Anne Carlier and Jean-Christophe Verstraete, 217?52. Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages 5. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/cagral.5.08vel. Welmers, William E. 1963. ?Associative a and ka in Niger-Congo.? Language 39 (3): 432?47. https://doi.org/10.2307/411125. Welmers, William E., and Beatrice F. Welmers. 1969. ?Noun Modifiers in Igbo.? International Journal of American Linguistics 35 (4): 315?22. https://doi.org/10.1086/465076. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: WFLL Seminar Programme 2024-2025.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 35481 bytes Desc: WFLL Seminar Programme 2024-2025.pdf URL: From sil.linguist at gmail.com Tue Sep 10 16:45:56 2024 From: sil.linguist at gmail.com (Hugh Paterson III) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 16:45:56 -0400 Subject: [Histling-l] CfP: First workshop on Data Models, Citation, Access, and Re-usability impacting Historical Linguistic Datasets Message-ID: This workshop proposes to provide a forum to discuss the structures and models of information resources in historical-comparative linguistic research outputs through the integration of informatic models from library science and archivy. We want to address pertinent issues impacting the indexing (for citation) and interoperability of datasets (for sustainability). *WS Title*: First workshop on Data Models, Citation, Access, and Re-usability impacting Historical Linguistic Datasets Workshop at ICHL27, Santiago de Chile, 18-22 August 2025 *Workshop Type*: in-person *Organizers*: Hugh Paterson III & Oksana Zavalina *Abstract Deadline*: October 18th *Abstract Details*: up to 800 words excluding references. *Submission*: Email PDF of abstracts to both i at hp3.me and oksana.zavalina at unt.edu with [ICHL27 w8] in the subject line. *Note*: Workshops are in most cases restricted to 6 papers; all other papers, if accepted, will be given as part of the ICHL general sessions. Should there be sufficient interest for an extended workshop (up to 12 papers), we will lobby the local organizers to permit this format. *Workshop Website*: https://hughandbecky.us/Hugh-CV/project/2025-ichl27-historical-linguistic-data-structures *Conference Website*: https://ichl27santiago.cl *PDF of **Workshop** abstract*: https://hughandbecky.us/Hugh-CV/project/2025-ichl27-historical-linguistic-data-structures/Citation-Access-and-Reusability-in-Historical-Linguistic-Data-Sets.pdf *Publication*: We are pursuing publication via edited volume post-workshop. *Goal & Questions* The role of library models (e.g., IFLA-LRM: Riva, Le B?uf, and ?umer 2017) and archival practice (e.g., lifecycle management: Higgins 2012) is under-explored in relation to the construction and reuse of Historical Linguistic Information Sources. This workshop proposes to provide a forum to discuss the structures and models of information resources in historical-comparative linguistic research outputs through the integration of informatic models from library science and archivy. We invite papers describing the information models used for assembling large corpora (including wordlists) used in historical linguistics, highlighting assumptions for citation, referencing, segmentation, and reusability of the assembled collection of texts and their digital surrogates. We encourage papers which present typologies of use cases, categories of tracked information, provenance of data content, citability of aggregate content, and the identifiers-for and permanence-of user-generated datasets on research platforms. - What are the design patterns within datasets? - What are the categories used? and what are their scopes? - What are the kinds of objects subsumed into datasets? *Background* Significant advances have been made in historical linguistics through the use of large compiled datasets (e.g., Kamholz et al. 2024; Tresoldi 2023; Arora et al. 2023; Dellert et al. 2020; Greenhill 2015; Segerer and Flavier 2013; Mielke 2008; Greenhill, Blust, and Gray 2008). While not precluding the contributions of single historical manuscripts and traditional manuscript consultation methods, the use of and creation of datasets (including corpora) has become the defacto way of generating new hypotheses (Wichmann and Saunders 2007; Steiner, Cysouw, and Stadler 2011; Segerer 2015). Datasets in historical linguistics generally do two things: (1) record critical researcher-created information such as reconstructed forms, cognacy judgments, confidence levels, along with contextual notes; and (2) contain foundational content from sources not created by the dataset compiler. Such source material often include historically published and unpublished resources including: maps (Hessle and Kirk 2020), language specific lexicons and published reconstructions (Kamholz et al. 2024), wordlists (Forkel et al. 2024; Segerer and Flavier 2013), transcriptions of manuscripts and texts (Weber et al. 2023; Genee and Junker 2018; Kyt? 2011), and even reconstructions by other scholars, etc. Interactional platform-tools such as RefLex (Segerer and Flavier 2013) or OUTOFPAPUA (Kamholz et al. 2024) allow users to create custom datasets based on specific selected resources available to the platform. They do this without requiring users to interact with the complete set of underlying resources and/or the platforms allow users to create new derivative aggregate collections (reconstructed forms and cognacy relations) independent of other platform users. Citing, referencing, and redistributing these custom datasets is challenging and impacts the verifiability of claims. It is broadly accepted across linguistic research that scholarly work?including evidence? should be citable, accessable, and reusable (Bird and Simons 2003). Together these issues impact reproducibility, an important tenet in scholarship often overlooked in linguistics (Berez-Kroeker et al. 2018). However, it is also well acknowledged that the citation and reference of original source material for linguistic evidence is lacking across the field (Gawne et al. 2017). More specifically in historical-comparative linguistics, the context of citation and referencing of the evidentiary record along with current dataset assemblage and distribution practices generally do not support fine-grained or Work-oriented citation and referencing. This often means that specific and necessary details in comparative linguistics are not retrievable. Therefore, the data models embedded within historical comparative datasets become all the more important for the reproducibility of work and the testing, verification, and refinement of hypotheses (Bakro-Nagy 2010). With the exception of leading work around Cross-Linguistic Data Formats (CLDF) use with historical-comparative data (Forkel et al. 2018; Forkel, Swanson, and Moran 2024) and approaches using linked data in linguistics (Kes?niemi et al. 2018; Tittel, Gillis-Webber, and Nannini 2020), the literature has been silent about the storage formats for historical-comparative data. Undiscussed are the information categories represented in historical comparative linguistic datasets. The informatic arrangement and description of compiled datasets has generally been ad-hoc and served the needs of individually-funded projects. This has resulted in a proliferation of divergent data categories mitigating against ease-of-reuse. We set out to ignite discussion around compilations of manuscripts, wordlists, and other derivative resources which have become mainstream tools in hypothesis generation related to the language evolution. We explore the heretofore unapproached contribution that models such as Work-Expression-Manifestation-Item (WEMI), illustrated in figure 1, from library and information science (Coyle 2023; Riva, Le B?uf, and ?umer 2017; IFLA, 1998) can offer those who compile, and cite/reference aggregate linguistic resources. Specifically, clarifying linking relationships between the literature and datasets, including dataset portions. We invite papers describing the information models used for assembling large corpora (including wordlists) used in historical linguistics, highlighting assumptions for citation, referencing, segmentation, and reusability of the assembled collection of texts and their digital surrogates. We encourage papers which present typologies of use cases, categories of tracked information, provenance of data content, citability of aggregate content, and the identifiers-for and permanence-of user-generated datasets on research platforms. Figure 1. Is available at the workshop website and the abstract in PDF form. References Arora, Aryaman, Adam Farris, Samopriya Basu, and Suresh Kolichala. 2023. ?Jambu: A Historical Linguistic Database for South Asian Languages.? arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.02514. Bakro-Nagy, Marianne. 2010. ?Data in Historical Linguistics: On Utterances, Sources, and Reliability.? *Sprachtheorie Und Germanistische Linguistik* 20.2: 133-195., January. https://www.academia.edu/3629841/Data_in_historical_linguistics_On_utterances_sources_and_reliability . Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L., Lauren Gawne, Susan Smythe Kung, Barbara F. Kelly, Tyler Heston, Gary Holton, Peter Pulsifer, et al. 2018. ?Reproducible Research in Linguistics: A Position Statement on Data Citation and Attribution in Our Field.? *Linguistics* 56 (1): 1?18. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2017-0032. Bird, Steven, and Gary F. Simons. 2003. ?Seven Dimensions of Portability for Language Documentation and Description.? *Language* 79 (3): 557?82. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2003.0149. Coyle, Karen. 2023. ?openWEMI.? In *Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications*. Dublin, Ohio: Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. https://doi.org/10.23106/DCMI.953115290. Dellert, Johannes, Thora Daneyko, Alla M?nch, Alina Ladygina, Armin Buch, Natalie Clarius, Ilja Grigorjew, et al. 2020. ?NorthEuraLex: A Wide-Coverage Lexical Database of Northern Eurasia.? *Language Resources and Evaluation* 54 (1): 273?301. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-019-09480-6. Forkel, Robert, Johann-Mattis List, Simon J. Greenhill, Christoph Rzymski, Sebastian Bank, Michael Cysouw, Harald Hammarstr?m, Martin Haspelmath, Gereon A. Kaiping, and Russell D. Gray. 2018. ?Cross-Linguistic Data Formats, Advancing Data Sharing and Re-Use in Comparative Linguistics.? *Scientific Data* 5 (1): 180205. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.205. Forkel, Robert, Johann-Mattis List, Christoph Rzymski, and Guillaume Segerer. 2024. ?Linguistic Survey of India and Polyglotta Africana: Two Retrostandardized Digital Editions of Large Historical Collections of Multilingual Wordlists.? In _Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), edited by Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, and Nianwen Xue, 10578?83. Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL. https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.925. Forkel, Robert, Daniel G. Swanson, and Steven Moran. 2024. ?Converting Legacy Data to CLDF: A FAIR Exit Strategy for Linguistic Web Apps.? In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), edited by Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, and Nianwen Xue, 3978?82. Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL. https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.353. Gawne, Lauren, Barbara F. Kelley, Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, and Tyler Heston. 2017. ?Putting Practice into Words: The State of Data and Methods Transparency in Grammatical Descriptions.? *Language Documentation & Description* 11:157?89. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24731. Genee, Inge, and Marie-Odile Junker. 2018. ?The Blackfoot Language Resources and Digital Dictionary Project: Creating Integrated Web Resources for Language Documentation and Revitalization.? *Language Documentation & Conservation* 12:274?314. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24770. Greenhill, Simon J. 2015. ?TransNewGuinea.Org: An Online Database of New Guinea Languages.? PLOS ONE 10 (10): e0141563. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141563. Greenhill, Simon J., Robert Blust, and Russell D. Gray. 2008. ?The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics.? *Evolutionary Bioinformatics* 4 (January):EBO.S893. https://doi.org/10.4137/EBO.S893. Hessle, Christian, and John Kirk. 2020. ?Digitising Collections of Historical Linguistic Data: The Example of The Linguistic Atlas of Scotland.? *Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities Special issue on Visualisations in Historical Linguistics*. https://doi.org/10.46298/jdmdh.5611. Higgins, Sarah. 2012. ?The Lifecycle of Data Managment.? In *Managing Research Data*, edited by Graham Pryor, 17?46. London, UK: Facet Publishing. IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records and Plassard, Marie-France. 1998. ?Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Final Report.? 2nd ed. [UBCIM Publications, New Series] IFLA Series on Bibliographic Control 19. Munich, Germany: K.G. Saur. http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr. Kamholz, David, Anne van Schie, Allahverdi Verdizade, Maria Zielenbach, and Antoinette Schapper. 2024. ?OUTOFPAPUA.? Database. 2024. https://outofpapua.com. Kes?niemi, Joonas, Turo Vartiainen, Tanja S?ily, and Terttu Nevalainen. 2018. ?Exploring Meta-Analysis for Historical Corpus Linguistics Based on Linked Data.? *Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science* 5 (1?2): 4?47. https://doi.org/10.1558/jrds.36709. Kyt?, Merja. 2011. ?Corpora and Historical Linguistics.? Revista Brasileira de Lingu?stica Aplicada 11 (2): 417?57. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1984-63982011000200007. Mielke, Jeff. 2008. The Emergence of Distinctive Features. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. Riva, Pat, Patrick Le B?uf, and Maja ?umer, eds. 2017. IFLA Library Reference Model: A Conceptual Model for Bibliographic Information. December 2017. Den Haag, Netherlands: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). https://www.ifla.org/publications/node/11412. Segerer, Guillaume. 2015. ?How Databases Shape Research: Labial-Velars Distribution in Africa.? In* 8th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL8)*. Kyoto, Japan. https://inria.hal.science/halshs-01251122. Segerer, Guillaume, and S?bastien Flavier. 2013. ?The RefLex Project: Documenting and Exploring Lexical Resources in Africa.? Oral Presentation presented at the Research, records and responsibility: Ten years of the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures, Sydney, Australia. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9854. Steiner, Lydia, Michael Cysouw, and Peter Stadler. 2011. ?A Pipeline for Computational Historical Linguistics,? January. https://doi.org/10.1163/221058211X570358. Tittel, Sabine, Frances Gillis-Webber, and Alessandro A. Nannini. 2020. ?Towards an Ontology Based on Hallig-Wartburg?s Begriffssystem for Historical Linguistic Linked Data.? In *Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2020)*, edited by Maxim Ionov, John P. McCrae, Christian Chiarcos, Thierry Declerck, Julia Bosque-Gil, and Jorge Gracia, 1?10. Marseille, France: European Language Resources Association. https://aclanthology.org/2020.ldl-1.1. Tresoldi, Tiago. 2023. ?A Global Lexical Database (GLED) for Computational Historical Linguistics.? *Journal of Open Humanities Data* 9 (1): Article 2. https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.96. Weber, Natalie, Tyler Brown, Joshua Celli, McKenzie Denham, Hailey Dykstra, Rodrigo Hernandez-Merlin, Evan Hochstein, et al. 2023. ?Blackfoot Words: A Database of Blackfoot Lexical Forms.? *Language Resources and Evaluation* 57 (3): 1207?62. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-022-09631-2. Wichmann, S?ren, and Arpiar Saunders. 2007. ?How to Use Typological Databases in Historical Linguistic Research.? *Diachronica* 24 (2): 373?404. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.24.2.06wic. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kersti.borjars at stcatz.ox.ac.uk Thu Sep 19 18:06:09 2024 From: kersti.borjars at stcatz.ox.ac.uk (Kersti Borjars) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 22:06:09 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] FW: Call for Papers: Workshop on Multiple Source Explanations In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Call for Papers for Workshop on Multiple source explanation in syntactic change at ICHL27 Santiago de Chile, 18-22 August 2025 Tine Breban and Kersti B?rjars In a workshop convened at the 2010 conference of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, the concept of ?multiple source construction? as an explanatory factor in language change was introduced (De Smet et al. 2015). Traditionally, language change is discussed in terms of one element or construction developing into a new element or construction, even when it is recognised that the linguistic context must be taken into account (Lehmann 1992: 406, Bybee et al. 1994: 11, Traugott 2003: 266-267). Multiple source accounts, on the other hand, recognise that more than one source may have contributed to the outcome of the change, in short, it is assumed that A > B does not capture the change, but rather A + B > C. In many cases, multiple sources explain elements that are synchronically odd or unexpected in a language or diachronic developments that have eluded explanation. The aim of the 2010 workshop was to show that multiple source accounts have explanatory force in all domains of language: phonology, lexicon, semantics, morphology and syntax, and this was exemplified with a broad range of phenomena, including phonological mergers, lexical blends, suppletion, syncretism and syntactic amalgams. Multiple source explanations are less well-explored in syntax, so now, ten years after De Smet et al. (2015) was published, the time seems right to pull together work done in this area. We are particularly interested in cases where some other dimension of linguistic information plays a role. Examples of well-worked analyses in which both syntax and semantics play a role, such as Trousdale (2015) and Fanego (2015), describe very different types of change, suggesting considerable and interesting diversity in multiple source explanations. One aim of the workshop is to expand the inventory and typology of multiple source explanations in syntactic change. We therefore invite papers which provide a multiple source account of a syntactic change, and we are especially interested in cases where, for instance, the semantics or phonology of the sources play a role in the analysis. We also welcome papers that deal at a more abstract level with the nature of multiple source construction as an explanatory factor in syntactic change. Particular questions to consider, at the level of individual case studies or at a more abstract level, include: * How do the source constructions contribute to and combine in multiple source explanations? * How can the interaction of dimensions of linguistic information be accounted for in terms of multiple source explanations? * How does the concept of multiple source explanation enhance our understanding of (this) syntactic change? * How do multiple source explanations relate to well-established mechanisms of (syntactic) change such as reanalysis and analogy (see De Smet 2013 on the latter)? * What are the conditions for and constraints on multiple source explanations? Submission We invite abstracts for talks in the workshop. Abstracts should be of no more than 500 words (excl. references) should be sent to Tine Breban (tine.breban at manchester.ac.uk) by 1 November 2024 (Word or pdf format). Conference website: https://ichl27santiago.cl/ References Bybee, Joan L, Revere D Perkins & William Pagliuca 1994. The evolution of grammar: tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world. Chicago: Chicago University Press. De Smet, Hendrik 2013. Change through recombination: blending and analogy. Language Sciences 40. 80?94. De Smet, Hendrik, Lobke Ghesqui?re & Freek Van de Velde (eds) 2015. On multiple source constructions in language change. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Fanego, Teresa 2015. Multiple sources in language change: the role of free adjuncts and absolutes in the formation of English ACC-ing gerundives. In Mikko H?glund, Paul Rickman, Juhani Rudanko & Jukka Havu (eds), Perspectives on complementation. Structure, variation and boundaries. 179?205. Lehmann, Christian 1992. Word order change by grammaticalization. In Marinel Gerritsen & Dieter Stein (eds), Internal and external factors in syntactic change. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 395?416. Traugott, Elizabeth 2003. Constructions in grammaticalization. In Brian D. Joseph & Richard D. Janda (eds), The handbook of historical linguistics. Malden, MA: Blackwell. 624?647. Trousdale, Graeme 2015. Multiple inheritance and constructional change. In Hendrik De Smet, Lobke Ghesqui?re & Freek Van de Velde (eds), On multiple source constructions in language change. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 19?42. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sandrauderset at gmail.com Fri Sep 20 10:24:24 2024 From: sandrauderset at gmail.com (Sandra Auderset) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 16:24:24 +0200 Subject: [Histling-l] Linguistic data and language comparison in light of the 'quantitative turn' and 'big data' =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=93_?=a workshop and symposium Message-ID: <157af811-8af7-41ff-81c8-48d5c9fc7c6f@Canary> ?? Workshop announcement and first call for submissions ?? Linguistic data and language comparison in light of the ?quantitative turn? and ?big data? ? a workshop and symposium May 7 to 9 2025 at the Department of Linguistics, University of Bern Organizer and contact: Sandra Auderset (sandra.auderset at unibe.ch) Timeline Application submissions due: November 15, 2024 (midnight CEST) Notifications sent out by: December 20, 2024 Workshop: May 7 to 9, 2025 Full call with references: https://tinyurl.com/45t6ta6y ?????????????? Issues and themes: In recent years, linguistics has undergone a ?quantitative turn?, that is, the introduction and spread of quantitative methods and models. The uptake for such approaches has been greater in some subfields than in others. In phonetics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics, the use of statistics is well established and is generally seen as uncontroversial. This is not so for subfields focusing on language description and comparison (both synchronic and diachronic), especially with respect to the integration of understudied and/or endangered languages. Quantitative methods applied in linguistic typology and historical linguistics often need relatively ?big? data sets (for linguistic standards). Accordingly, we have also witnessed a rise in large-scale databases including extensive reference catalogs such as Glottolog (Hammarstr?m et al. 2024), comparative typological data bases such as the World Atlas of Language Structures (Dryer & Haspelmath 2013) and more recently GramBank (Skirg?rd et al. 2023), and large cognate-coded word lists such as IE-Cor (Heggarty et al. 2023), among many others. These resources are often used to make broad, universal claims about the interplay of language and cognition (Hahn 2020), language and social structure (Lupyan & Dale 2010, Shcherbakova et al. 2023), language and genetics (Dediu 2011), and language and climate (Everett et al. 2015, Everett et al. 2016), among others. ?Big data? sets all involve standardization, multiple levels of abstraction, and a view of language as composed of separable, domain-specific building blocks (cf. Lehmann 2004, Heath 2016, and Good in Berez-Kroeker 2022). The alternative view ? of language as interaction and an interconnected system ? has led to lower-level (regional, family-specific, etc.), but more detailed and less abstractive micro-typologies (cf. Konoshenko & Shavarina 2019, Hildebrandt et al. 2023, among many others). Such studies reveal that there is considerable internal diversity within language families and subgroups, which is key to understanding diachronic processes. The question of how to model diachronic processes has also been at the center of recent developments in historical linguistics. Bayesian phylogenetics, adapted from evolutionary biology, have found wider adoption in the past decade (cf. Auderset et al. 2023, Wu et al. 2022, Kaiping & Klamer 2022, among many others) but remain controversial. The main points of skepticism concern whether biological models of evolution are applicable to languages at all (e.g. Campbell 2024: 23) and the issue of relying solely on ?lexical? data. At the same time, classifications based on expert opinions and qualitative methods are often accepted without much scrutiny, even if the data the analysis is based on remain inaccessible to other scholars. Thus there has been a move towards open datasets in historical linguistics, often with considerable efforts to make the analytical choices, for example in cognate annotation, transparent (cf. Auderset & Campbell 2024, Arora et al. 2023, among others). Finer-grained, family-internal and truly bottom-up approaches and methodologies are easier to connect with language documentation and description efforts that have increased over the past decades. However, the question of how to integrate this data into comparative studies, both qualitative and quantitative, is not resolved. This is especially pertinent for spoken language data, which forms the bulk of language documentation, but so far plays only a minor role in typology and diachronic linguistics (but see the contributions in Schnell et al. 2021 and Epps et al. 2022 for recent examples). Cross-linguistic spoken language corpora, focusing on diverse and mostly understudied languages, such as Multi-CAST (Haig & Schnell 2015) and DoReCo (Seifart et al. 2022) aim at addressing this latter issue. Since they need to rely on common annotation schemas, they also contribute to a wider debate on cross-linguistic comparability and build explicit bridges between raw and primary/secondary data. In general, discussions on the notion and role of data with respect to analysis and theory often revolve around how language-specific data can be related to cross-linguistic definitions and concepts (see e.g. Alfieri et al. 2021). Much less attention is paid to the ontological underpinnings of what constitutes (primary/secondary) data and how the preparation and annotation of this data influences qualitative and quantitative theories and models (cf. Weigel 2013 for an explicit discussion of contrived data). This workshop provides a forum for in-depth discussion and exchange on theoretical and methodological issues related to linguistic data and language comparison by exploring the relationship of data gathering, analysis, and annotation practices in linguistics in light of the 'quantitative turn' and the advent of ?big data?. A particular focus lies on synchronic and diachronic comparison and the role of understudied/endangered languages. Potential talk and discussion topics include but are not limited to: ? types of linguistic data and their relationship to qualitative and quantitative analyses ? transparency and reproducibility in the context of primary and secondary data ? the role of understudied and endangered languages in methodological and theoretical advancements ? biases in annotation and analysis of linguistic data and how they can be addressed or mitigated ? the connection of quantitative/computational methods and language documentation, especially how they can mutually benefit each other ? models and methodologies for bottom-up language comparison ? database design principles and their effect on linguistic theorizing ? ?best practices? for quantitative and statistical methods drawing on a diverse set of data ? models of collaboration between researchers focusing on different aspects of data management and analysis (e.g. recordings and annotation, statistical modeling, questionnaire development) Format and target audience: The workshop/symposium consists of short talks by the participants, invited keynotes, and discussion sessions. It is aimed primarily at early career researchers in linguistics or adjacent fields. Preference will be given to scholars working on endangered and/or understudied languages and/or on methods and tools that advance research on such languages. Submission guidelines: Interested researchers should send an abstract of their proposed talk and a brief motivation letter including their general research interests as they relate to the topic of the symposium. It?s not necessary to anonymize the documents - name and affiliation should be included. Please note that all participants are expected to attend the full workshop in person. Format: ? Abstract: max. 400 words excluding references but including examples ? Motivation letter: max. 400 words ? e-mail a single PDF file named: lastname_dataws.pdf to data_ws_unibe at gmx.ch Travel grants: A limited number of small travel grants are available. Applications for the travel grants will be open to accepted participants who are based abroad and cannot secure funding otherwise. Details will be sent out with the notifications for acceptance. This workshop is supported by the Fund for the Promotion of Young Researchers and the Department of Linguistics at the University of Bern. Updates will be posted at: https://tinyurl.com/3uh4xwke ----------------------------------------------------- Sandra Auderset, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher [she/her] University of Bern Department of Linguistics L?nggassstrasse 49 CH-3012 Bern -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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All seminars will be held remotely via Microsoft Teams at 5pm GMT. They will provisionally be held once a month on a Monday, but this may increase up to twice a month depending on the number of speakers. 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.1.bru at kcl.ac.uk). Deadline for the abstracts is 6th December 2024. All this information is readily available at our website: https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The workshop?s keynote speaker will be Dr Jenneke Van der Wal, specialist in African languages and linguistics. For the workshop, we especially welcome proposals featuring underrepresented languages in the diachronic generative syntax tradition. This year?s plenary speakers are Anne Breitbarth (Universiteit Gent), Pierre Larriv?e (Universit? de Caen), Ana Maria Martins (Universidade de Lisboa), and Jenneke van der Wal (Universiteit Leiden). The call for papers is now open for the workshop and the general session. Conference details: https://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/digs26 Submission platform: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/DiGS26/ Contact: digs26oxford at ling-phil.ox.ac.uk We look forward to seeing you in Oxford in June! Important dates: Deadline for abstract submission: January 27, 2025 Notification of acceptance: March 17, 2025 With very best wishes, The organising committee ? 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Please refer to the first call for papers for conference topics and further instructions: https://easychair.org/cfp/gwc2025 -- [image: LOGO-UNIPV] Erica Biagetti Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici Assegnista di ricerca / Postdoc researcher Corso Strada Nuova 65 - 27100 Pavia (Italia) Pagina personale -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From serzant at uni-potsdam.de Fri Sep 27 07:55:10 2024 From: serzant at uni-potsdam.de (=?UTF-8?Q?Ilja_A=2E_Ser=C5=BEant?=) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 13:55:10 +0200 Subject: [Histling-l] CfP "Areal linguistics and language contact of Uralic languages. Language-specific and typological approaches", June 12-14, 2025 Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Please find below the call for papers for the conference ?Areal linguistics and language contact of Uralic languages. Language-specific and typological approaches ?, to be held on *June 12?14, 2025*?in Riga, Latvia. Invited speakers:*Gerson Klumpp *(University of Tartu),*Kaius Sinnem?ki *(University of Helsinki). The goal of this conference is to combine language-specific, qualitative and typological, quantitative approaches to areal linguistics and language contact with the focus on Uralic languages and their contact languages. We encourage submissions addressing (but not limited to) the following topics: * typological approaches to language contact and areal linguistics of Uralic * corpus-based studies of specific contact phenomena between Uralic and non-Uralic languages * at the same time, we are very much interested in qualitative research on important topics in language contact including but not limited to contact-induced grammaticalization and disentangling common inheritance from parallel and contact-induced developments within Uralic * the sociolinguistic dimensions of language contact in Uralic * interdisciplinary approaches to understanding language contacts of Uralic languages Anonymized abstracts in PDF format should be submitted to the conference email at _uralic.in.contact at gmail.com_?by *December 1, 2024.* Abstracts must be written in English and should not exceed one page (using 11pt font), excluding references and figures.? One person may submit up to two abstracts: one as a single author or co-author, and another one as a co-author. Note that affiliations with Russian institutions and references to Russian grants cannot be acknowledged. Organizers: Aigul Zakirova (University of Potsdam), Gunta K?ava (Institute of Livonian language), Valts Ern?treits (Institute of Livonian language), Ilja A. Ser?ant (University of Potsdam). URL: https://sites.google.com/view/lcu2025/home?authuser=0 -- Prof. Ilja A. Ser?ant, dr., habil. 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The call for papers, with all the necessary information, is available here: https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2025/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2024/09/Diachronic-Studies-on-Minoritised-and-Under-researched-Romance-Varieties.pdf The deadline for submissions is 10 November 2024, and provisional abstracts should be under 300 words. Have a good day, and I hope to see you in Bordeaux next summer! With best wishes, Marc -- Dr Marc Olivier-Loiseau (he/him) Departmental Lecturer in French Linguistics | University of Oxford Linguistics Organising Tutor | St John?s College & St Catherine?s College & Pembroke College Stipendiary Lecturer in French Linguistics | St Hugh?s College Visiting Researcher | Maison Fran?aise d'Oxford Executive Member | Societas Linguistica Europaea Website: https://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/people/marc-olivier Website (personal): https://www.m-olivierloiseau.com Twitter: @loiseaulivier -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We encourage submissions addressing (but not limited to) the following questions: * methods and data to explore prehistorical past of particular areas including research on migrations, ethnic or social composition of past societies * how to combine linguistic evidence with the archeological and/or genetic evidence in order to produce reliable conclusions * how to combine the traditional toponymic research with quantitative approaches * specific case studies on particular areas and locations * research on human past along the Daugava river Anonymized abstracts in PDF format should be submitted to the conference email at ling.archeo at gmail.com?by *December 1, 2024.* * * Abstracts must be written in English and should not exceed one page (using 11pt font), excluding references and figures.? One person may submit up to two abstracts. Organizers: Ilja Ser?ant (University of Potsdam), Jens Schneewei? (University of Gottingen),? Dmitri Sitchinava (University of Potsdam). URL: https://sites.google.com/view/upld2025/home -- Prof. Ilja A. Ser?ant, dr., habil. Chair Slavic linguistics Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Potsdam Am Neuen Palais 10, Haus 01, D-14469 Potsdam Tel. + 49 331 977 4152; Room 1.1.2.06 URL:https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/slavische-linguistik/team/serzant Potsdam Slavic Variation Lab:https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/slavische-linguistik/slavic-variation-lab PoSla Typology Lab:https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/slavische-linguistik/posla-typology-lab -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andres.enrique at uib.es Tue Oct 15 09:13:10 2024 From: andres.enrique at uib.es (=?utf-8?B?QW5kcsOpcyBFbnJpcXVlIEFyaWFz?=) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 13:13:10 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Language corpora and dialectal variation in a historical perspective. WS @ ICHL27, Santiago de Chile, August 2025 Message-ID: Language corpora and dialectal variation in a historical perspective Workshop at ICHL27, Santiago de Chile, 18-22 August 2025 Organizers: Andres Enrique-Arias (University of the Balearic Islands), Marina Gomila Albal (Spanish National Research Council) Language change and dialectal variation are two fields of inquiry that have been strongly related to each other since the beginnings of linguistics as a scientific endeavor. Early efforts in historical linguistics tried to make sense of dialectal variation using different models of the diffusion of diachronic changes, such as the wave theory (Chambers & Trudgill 1980, Wolfram & Schilling-Estes 2003), or the principle of lateral areas (Bartoli 1925, Andersen 1988). Likewise, linguists soon became aware that the centuries-old coexistence of languages ??in the same geographical space results in their sharing structural properties, making it necessary to distinguish between language similarities arising from a genetic relationship from those arising from language contact (Muysken 2008; Noonan 2010). Further 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 (Kortmann 2003, Auer & Schmidt 2010). Against this backdrop, the availability of new corpora and databases that allow accessing historical data of individual languages sorted by geographical origin, along with the application of technological developments, such as GIS software, are facilitating renewed historical investigations that consider the spatial factor (Alcorn, Kopaczyk, Los & Molineaux 2019). The objective of this workshop is to explore the possibilities provided by historical corpora and analytical tools to the study of the interplay between geographical variation and language change. As such, we welcome the proposals of researchers working in historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, corpus linguistics, language contact, language typology and computational linguistics. Some suggested topics are: * Different models of visualization of language variants on the physical space. * Useful sources to create corpora for historical dialectology: historical documents, newspapers, toponyms, social networks. * Corpus-based investigations that illustrate with specific case studies the diffusion of linguistic changes on the physical space. * Methods to integrate spatial and social information onto historical corpora. * Application of computational techniques, such as probabilistic methods, to discern dialect areas in historical data. * Studies based on synchronic data (e.g. from online social networks) that can shed light onto historical processes. * Investigations that examine the spatial distribution of variants to tease apart linguistic features that have spread due to language contact from those resulting from an internal development. Abstracts of no more than 500 words (excluding references) should be sent to Andr?s Enrique-Arias (andres.enrique at uib.es) and Marina Gomila Albal (marina.gomila at cchs.csic.es) by 18 October 2024 in an editable format (i.e. Word, Open Office). Workshops are in principle restricted to six papers; all other papers, if accepted, will be considered for the ICHL general session. References: Alcorn, Rhona, Joanna Kopaczyk, Bettelou Los & Benjamin Molineaux, eds. 2019. Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Andersen, Henning. 1988. Center and periphery: adoption, diffusion, and spread. In Jacek Fisiak (ed.), Historical Dialectology, Regional and Social, 39-83. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Auer, Peter & J?rgen E. Schmidt, eds. 2010. Language and Space. An International Handbook of Linguistic Variation, 649?667. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Bartoli, Matteo G. 1925. Introduzione alla Neolinguistica (princi?pi--scopi--metodi). Gen?ve: L.S. Olschki. Chambers, J.K.& Peter Trudgill. 1980. Dialectology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Kortmann, Bernd. 2003. Dialectology meets Typology: Dialect Grammar from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197327 Muysken, Pieter. 2008. From linguistic areas to areal linguistics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Noonan, Michael. 2010. Genetic Classification and Language Contact. In Raymond Hickey (ed.), The Handbook of Language Contact, 48-65. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. Wolfram, Walt & Natalie Schilling-Estes. 2003. Dialectology and Linguistic Diffusion. In Joseph Brian & Richard Janda (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, 713?735. Oxford: Blackwell. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the launch of a new mailing list for Data in Historical Linguistics, available at: data-in-historical-linguistics at googlegroups.com. Created alongside our seminar series, which we (Andrea Farina and Mathilde Bru, King?s College London) continue to convene, this mailing list is designed to serve as a central hub for sharing information on quantitative and data-driven research on historical linguistics. Whether it's updates on events, seminars, conferences, or broader discussions, this platform will help foster collaboration and keep everyone connected with the latest developments in the field. How to join: To become a member, please send a subscription request by emailing data-in-historical-linguistics+subscribe at googlegroups.com. We will review and approve all requests to ensure a focused and engaged community. 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We want to address pertinent issues impacting the indexing (for citation) and interoperability of datasets (for sustainability). *WS Title*: First workshop on Data Models, Citation, Access, and Re-usability impacting Historical Linguistic Datasets Workshop at ICHL27, Santiago de Chile, 18-22 August 2025 *Workshop Type*: in-person *Organizers*: Hugh Paterson III & Oksana Zavalina *Abstract Deadline*: October 18th *Abstract EXTENDED Deadline*: November 7th *Abstract Details*: up to 800 words excluding references. *Submission*: Email PDF of abstracts to both i at hp3.me and oksana.zavalina at unt.edu with [ICHL27 w8] in the subject line. *Note*: Workshops are in most cases restricted to 6 papers; all other papers, if accepted, will be given as part of the ICHL general sessions. Should there be sufficient interest for an extended workshop (up to 12 papers), we will lobby the local organizers to permit this format. *Workshop Website*: https://hughandbecky.us/Hugh-CV/project/2025-ichl27-historical-linguistic-data-structures *Conference Website*: https://ichl27santiago.cl *PDF of **Workshop** abstract*: https://hughandbecky.us/Hugh-CV/project/2025-ichl27-historical-linguistic-data-structures/Citation-Access-and-Reusability-in-Historical-Linguistic-Data-Sets.pdf *Publication*: We are pursuing publication via edited volume post-workshop. *Goal & Questions* The role of library models (e.g., IFLA-LRM: Riva, Le B?uf, and ?umer 2017) and archival practice (e.g., lifecycle management: Higgins 2012) is under-explored in relation to the construction and reuse of Historical Linguistic Information Sources. This workshop proposes to provide a forum to discuss the structures and models of information resources in historical-comparative linguistic research outputs through the integration of informatic models from library science and archivy. We invite papers describing the information models used for assembling large corpora (including wordlists) used in historical linguistics, highlighting assumptions for citation, referencing, segmentation, and reusability of the assembled collection of texts and their digital surrogates. We encourage papers which present typologies of use cases, categories of tracked information, provenance of data content, citability of aggregate content, and the identifiers-for and permanence-of user-generated datasets on research platforms. - What are the design patterns within datasets? - What are the categories used? and what are their scopes? - What are the kinds of objects subsumed into datasets? *Background* Significant advances have been made in historical linguistics through the use of large compiled datasets (e.g., Kamholz et al. 2024; Tresoldi 2023; Arora et al. 2023; Dellert et al. 2020; Greenhill 2015; Segerer and Flavier 2013; Mielke 2008; Greenhill, Blust, and Gray 2008). While not precluding the contributions of single historical manuscripts and traditional manuscript consultation methods, the use of and creation of datasets (including corpora) has become the defacto way of generating new hypotheses (Wichmann and Saunders 2007; Steiner, Cysouw, and Stadler 2011; Segerer 2015). Datasets in historical linguistics generally do two things: (1) record critical researcher-created information such as reconstructed forms, cognacy judgments, confidence levels, along with contextual notes; and (2) contain foundational content from sources not created by the dataset compiler. Such source material often include historically published and unpublished resources including: maps (Hessle and Kirk 2020), language specific lexicons and published reconstructions (Kamholz et al. 2024), wordlists (Forkel et al. 2024; Segerer and Flavier 2013), transcriptions of manuscripts and texts (Weber et al. 2023; Genee and Junker 2018; Kyt? 2011), and even reconstructions by other scholars, etc. Interactional platform-tools such as RefLex (Segerer and Flavier 2013) or OUTOFPAPUA (Kamholz et al. 2024) allow users to create custom datasets based on specific selected resources available to the platform. They do this without requiring users to interact with the complete set of underlying resources and/or the platforms allow users to create new derivative aggregate collections (reconstructed forms and cognacy relations) independent of other platform users. Citing, referencing, and redistributing these custom datasets is challenging and impacts the verifiability of claims. It is broadly accepted across linguistic research that scholarly work?including evidence? should be citable, accessable, and reusable (Bird and Simons 2003). Together these issues impact reproducibility, an important tenet in scholarship often overlooked in linguistics (Berez-Kroeker et al. 2018). However, it is also well acknowledged that the citation and reference of original source material for linguistic evidence is lacking across the field (Gawne et al. 2017). More specifically in historical-comparative linguistics, the context of citation and referencing of the evidentiary record along with current dataset assemblage and distribution practices generally do not support fine-grained or Work-oriented citation and referencing. This often means that specific and necessary details in comparative linguistics are not retrievable. Therefore, the data models embedded within historical comparative datasets become all the more important for the reproducibility of work and the testing, verification, and refinement of hypotheses (Bakro-Nagy 2010). With the exception of leading work around Cross-Linguistic Data Formats (CLDF) use with historical-comparative data (Forkel et al. 2018; Forkel, Swanson, and Moran 2024) and approaches using linked data in linguistics (Kes?niemi et al. 2018; Tittel, Gillis-Webber, and Nannini 2020), the literature has been silent about the storage formats for historical-comparative data. Undiscussed are the information categories represented in historical comparative linguistic datasets. The informatic arrangement and description of compiled datasets has generally been ad-hoc and served the needs of individually-funded projects. This has resulted in a proliferation of divergent data categories mitigating against ease-of-reuse. We set out to ignite discussion around compilations of manuscripts, wordlists, and other derivative resources which have become mainstream tools in hypothesis generation related to the language evolution. We explore the heretofore unapproached contribution that models such as Work-Expression-Manifestation-Item (WEMI), illustrated in figure 1, from library and information science (Coyle 2023; Riva, Le B?uf, and ?umer 2017; IFLA, 1998) can offer those who compile, and cite/reference aggregate linguistic resources. Specifically, clarifying linking relationships between the literature and datasets, including dataset portions. We invite papers describing the information models used for assembling large corpora (including wordlists) used in historical linguistics, highlighting assumptions for citation, referencing, segmentation, and reusability of the assembled collection of texts and their digital surrogates. We encourage papers which present typologies of use cases, categories of tracked information, provenance of data content, citability of aggregate content, and the identifiers-for and permanence-of user-generated datasets on research platforms. Figure 1. Is available at the workshop website and the abstract in PDF form. References Arora, Aryaman, Adam Farris, Samopriya Basu, and Suresh Kolichala. 2023. ?Jambu: A Historical Linguistic Database for South Asian Languages.? arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.02514. Bakro-Nagy, Marianne. 2010. ?Data in Historical Linguistics: On Utterances, Sources, and Reliability.? *Sprachtheorie Und Germanistische Linguistik* 20.2: 133-195., January. https://www.academia.edu/3629841/Data_in_historical_linguistics_On_utterances_sources_and_reliability . Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L., Lauren Gawne, Susan Smythe Kung, Barbara F. Kelly, Tyler Heston, Gary Holton, Peter Pulsifer, et al. 2018. ?Reproducible Research in Linguistics: A Position Statement on Data Citation and Attribution in Our Field.? *Linguistics* 56 (1): 1?18. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2017-0032. Bird, Steven, and Gary F. Simons. 2003. ?Seven Dimensions of Portability for Language Documentation and Description.? *Language* 79 (3): 557?82. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2003.0149. Coyle, Karen. 2023. ?openWEMI.? In *Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications*. Dublin, Ohio: Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. https://doi.org/10.23106/DCMI.953115290. Dellert, Johannes, Thora Daneyko, Alla M?nch, Alina Ladygina, Armin Buch, Natalie Clarius, Ilja Grigorjew, et al. 2020. ?NorthEuraLex: A Wide-Coverage Lexical Database of Northern Eurasia.? *Language Resources and Evaluation* 54 (1): 273?301. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-019-09480-6. Forkel, Robert, Johann-Mattis List, Simon J. Greenhill, Christoph Rzymski, Sebastian Bank, Michael Cysouw, Harald Hammarstr?m, Martin Haspelmath, Gereon A. Kaiping, and Russell D. Gray. 2018. ?Cross-Linguistic Data Formats, Advancing Data Sharing and Re-Use in Comparative Linguistics.? *Scientific Data* 5 (1): 180205. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.205. Forkel, Robert, Johann-Mattis List, Christoph Rzymski, and Guillaume Segerer. 2024. ?Linguistic Survey of India and Polyglotta Africana: Two Retrostandardized Digital Editions of Large Historical Collections of Multilingual Wordlists.? In _Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), edited by Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, and Nianwen Xue, 10578?83. Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL. https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.925. Forkel, Robert, Daniel G. Swanson, and Steven Moran. 2024. ?Converting Legacy Data to CLDF: A FAIR Exit Strategy for Linguistic Web Apps.? In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), edited by Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, and Nianwen Xue, 3978?82. Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL. https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.353. Gawne, Lauren, Barbara F. Kelley, Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, and Tyler Heston. 2017. ?Putting Practice into Words: The State of Data and Methods Transparency in Grammatical Descriptions.? *Language Documentation & Description* 11:157?89. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24731. Genee, Inge, and Marie-Odile Junker. 2018. ?The Blackfoot Language Resources and Digital Dictionary Project: Creating Integrated Web Resources for Language Documentation and Revitalization.? *Language Documentation & Conservation* 12:274?314. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24770. Greenhill, Simon J. 2015. ?TransNewGuinea.Org: An Online Database of New Guinea Languages.? PLOS ONE 10 (10): e0141563. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141563. Greenhill, Simon J., Robert Blust, and Russell D. Gray. 2008. ?The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics.? *Evolutionary Bioinformatics* 4 (January):EBO.S893. https://doi.org/10.4137/EBO.S893. Hessle, Christian, and John Kirk. 2020. ?Digitising Collections of Historical Linguistic Data: The Example of The Linguistic Atlas of Scotland.? *Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities Special issue on Visualisations in Historical Linguistics*. https://doi.org/10.46298/jdmdh.5611. Higgins, Sarah. 2012. ?The Lifecycle of Data Managment.? In *Managing Research Data*, edited by Graham Pryor, 17?46. London, UK: Facet Publishing. IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records and Plassard, Marie-France. 1998. ?Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Final Report.? 2nd ed. [UBCIM Publications, New Series] IFLA Series on Bibliographic Control 19. Munich, Germany: K.G. Saur. http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr. Kamholz, David, Anne van Schie, Allahverdi Verdizade, Maria Zielenbach, and Antoinette Schapper. 2024. ?OUTOFPAPUA.? Database. 2024. https://outofpapua.com. Kes?niemi, Joonas, Turo Vartiainen, Tanja S?ily, and Terttu Nevalainen. 2018. ?Exploring Meta-Analysis for Historical Corpus Linguistics Based on Linked Data.? *Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science* 5 (1?2): 4?47. https://doi.org/10.1558/jrds.36709. Kyt?, Merja. 2011. ?Corpora and Historical Linguistics.? Revista Brasileira de Lingu?stica Aplicada 11 (2): 417?57. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1984-63982011000200007. Mielke, Jeff. 2008. The Emergence of Distinctive Features. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. Riva, Pat, Patrick Le B?uf, and Maja ?umer, eds. 2017. IFLA Library Reference Model: A Conceptual Model for Bibliographic Information. December 2017. Den Haag, Netherlands: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). https://www.ifla.org/publications/node/11412. Segerer, Guillaume. 2015. ?How Databases Shape Research: Labial-Velars Distribution in Africa.? In* 8th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL8)*. Kyoto, Japan. https://inria.hal.science/halshs-01251122. Segerer, Guillaume, and S?bastien Flavier. 2013. ?The RefLex Project: Documenting and Exploring Lexical Resources in Africa.? Oral Presentation presented at the Research, records and responsibility: Ten years of the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures, Sydney, Australia. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9854. Steiner, Lydia, Michael Cysouw, and Peter Stadler. 2011. ?A Pipeline for Computational Historical Linguistics,? January. https://doi.org/10.1163/221058211X570358. Tittel, Sabine, Frances Gillis-Webber, and Alessandro A. Nannini. 2020. ?Towards an Ontology Based on Hallig-Wartburg?s Begriffssystem for Historical Linguistic Linked Data.? In *Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2020)*, edited by Maxim Ionov, John P. McCrae, Christian Chiarcos, Thierry Declerck, Julia Bosque-Gil, and Jorge Gracia, 1?10. Marseille, France: European Language Resources Association. https://aclanthology.org/2020.ldl-1.1. Tresoldi, Tiago. 2023. ?A Global Lexical Database (GLED) for Computational Historical Linguistics.? *Journal of Open Humanities Data* 9 (1): Article 2. https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.96. Weber, Natalie, Tyler Brown, Joshua Celli, McKenzie Denham, Hailey Dykstra, Rodrigo Hernandez-Merlin, Evan Hochstein, et al. 2023. ?Blackfoot Words: A Database of Blackfoot Lexical Forms.? *Language Resources and Evaluation* 57 (3): 1207?62. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-022-09631-2. Wichmann, S?ren, and Arpiar Saunders. 2007. ?How to Use Typological Databases in Historical Linguistic Research.? *Diachronica* 24 (2): 373?404. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.24.2.06wic. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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A particular focus lies on synchronic and diachronic comparison and the role of understudied/endangered languages. 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URL: From daria.alfimova at uni-potsdam.de Wed Oct 30 12:13:49 2024 From: daria.alfimova at uni-potsdam.de (Daria Alfimova) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 17:13:49 +0100 Subject: [Histling-l] =?utf-8?q?CONF=3A_Syntax_of_the_World=E2=80=99s_Lan?= =?utf-8?q?guages_X?= Message-ID: Call for papers Syntax of the World?s Languages (SWL X) September, 8-12th 2025 University of Potsdam, Campus Am Neuen Palais Chair of Slavic Linguistics, PoSla Typology Lab The tenthSyntax of the World's Languages conference will take place in Potsdam, Germany,between September 8-12th, 2025, at the University of Potsdam, CampusAm Neuen Palais. In the same spirit as previous conferences in this series (SWLI, Leipzig 2004; SWL II, Lancaster 2006; SWL III, Berlin 2008; SWL IV, Lyon2010; SWL V, Dubrovnik 2012; SWL VI, Pavia 2014; SWL VII, Mexico City 2016; SWLVIII, Paris 2018; SWL IX, Lima 2024), SWL X will provide a forum for linguistsworking on the syntax of less widely studied languages from a variety ofperspectives. The mainpurpose of the SWL conference series is to enlarge our knowledge andunderstanding of syntactic diversity. Contributions are expected to be based onfirst-hand data of individual languages or to adopt a broadly comparativeperspective. The discussion of theoretical issues is appreciated to the extentthat it helps elucidate the data and is understandable without prior knowledgeof the relevant theory. All theoretical frameworks are equally welcome. Papersthat adopt a diachronic or comparative perspective are also welcome, as arepapers dealing with morphological or semantic issues, as long as syntacticissues also play a role. We welcome submissions for 20 minute talks, which will be followed by 10minutes of discussion. Anonymous abstracts in .pdf format of no more than 1page (plus possibly an additional page for examples and references) should besubmitted electronically via the EasyAbs website (https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/SWL10/). Abstracts must be written inEnglish, with fully glossed examples conforming to the Leipzig glossing rules.The deadline for all abstract submissions is February 27, 2025. Each individual may participate in up to two abstracts,with a maximum of one single-authored submission. We will also offer slots for posters, if youwould like your paper to be considered for a poster slot, please indicate soduring your submission. The conference will reserve some space for workshops.If you are interested in organizing a workshop, please, contact us (swl10.conference at gmail.com)with a 2-page proposalbefore December 15, 2024. Conference location Universityof Potsdam, Campus Am Neuen Palais URL: https://sites.google.com/view/swl-x/home AbstractSubmission: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/SWL10/ Conferenceemail: swl10.conference at gmail.com Importantdates Deadlinefor submission of workshop proposals: December 15, 2024 Deadlinefor submission of abstracts: February 27, 2025 Notificationof acceptance: April 30, 2025 Conference: September8-12th, 2025 Keynotespeakers ChristianD?hler KatharinaHaude LidiaFederica Mazzitelli Theorganizing committee DariaAlfimova PeterArkadiev DariaDermaku WakweyaGobena AndreasH?lzl KirillKozhanov MashaOvsjannikova Sergey Say IljaSer?ant AigulZakirova -- Daria Alfimova, PhD student Department of Slavonic Studies University of Potsdam Am Neuen Palais 10, Haus 1, 14469 Potsdam https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/slavische-linguistik/team/daria-alfimova -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andrea.farina at kcl.ac.uk Tue Nov 5 10:07:31 2024 From: andrea.farina at kcl.ac.uk (Andrea Farina) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 15:07:31 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Call for abstracts: Data in Historical Linguistics 2025 Seminars Message-ID: We are pleased to announce that the call for abstracts for the second series of the Data in Historical Linguistics seminar series is now open. This seminar series will be run by King?s College London, and is aimed at PhD students and early career researchers. The purpose of this seminar series is to bring together researchers working on historical linguistics with a quantitative approach, and to discuss current avenues of research in this topic. 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 2025 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 on a Monday, but this may increase up to twice a month depending on the number of speakers. 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.1.bru at kcl.ac.uk). Deadline for the abstracts is 6th December 2024. All this information is readily available at our website: https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/ Subscribe to our mailing list! 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Invited speakers:*Gerson Klumpp *(University of Tartu),*Kaius Sinnem?ki *(University of Helsinki). The goal of this conference is to combine language-specific, qualitative and typological, quantitative approaches to areal linguistics and language contact with the focus on Uralic languages and their contact languages. We encourage submissions addressing (but not limited to) the following topics: * typological approaches to language contact and areal linguistics of Uralic * corpus-based studies of specific contact phenomena between Uralic and non-Uralic languages * at the same time, we are very much interested in qualitative research on important topics in language contact including but not limited to contact-induced grammaticalization and disentangling common inheritance from parallel and contact-induced developments within Uralic * the sociolinguistic dimensions of language contact in Uralic * interdisciplinary approaches to understanding language contacts of Uralic languages Anonymized abstracts in PDF format should be submitted to the conference email at _uralic.in.contact at gmail.com_?by *December 1, 2024.* Abstracts must be written in English and should not exceed one page (using 11pt font), excluding references and figures.? 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Invited speakers:***Mat?as Guzm?n Naranjo* (University of Freiburg), *P?teris Vanags* (University of Latvia, University of Stockholm), *Petri Kallio* (University of Helsinki). This conference aims at combining specific studies that are devoted to the reconstruction of the prehistorical past on the basis of linguistic data with the focus on methodology and area-specific studies. We encourage submissions addressing (but not limited to) the following questions: * methods and data to explore prehistorical past of particular areas including research on migrations, ethnic or social composition of past societies * how to combine linguistic evidence with the archeological and/or genetic evidence in order to produce reliable conclusions * how to combine the traditional toponymic research with quantitative approaches * specific case studies on particular areas and locations * research on human past along the Daugava river Anonymized abstracts in PDF format should be submitted to the conference email at ling.archeo at gmail.com?by *December 1, 2024.* * * Abstracts must be written in English and should not exceed one page (using 11pt font), excluding references and figures.? One person may submit up to two abstracts. Organizers: Ilja Ser?ant (University of Potsdam), Jens Schneewei? (University of Gottingen),? Dmitri Sitchinava (University of Potsdam). URL: https://sites.google.com/view/upld2025/home -- Prof. Ilja A. Ser?ant, dr., habil. Chair Slavic linguistics Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Potsdam Am Neuen Palais 10, Haus 01, D-14469 Potsdam Tel. + 49 331 977 4152; Room 1.1.2.06 URL:https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/slavische-linguistik/team/serzant Potsdam Slavic Variation Lab:https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/slavische-linguistik/slavic-variation-lab PoSla Typology Lab:https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/slavische-linguistik/posla-typology-lab -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Invited speakers:***Mat?as Guzm?n Naranjo* ?(University of Freiburg), *P?teris Vanags* ?(University of Latvia, University of Stockholm), *Petri Kallio* ?(University of Helsinki). This conference aims at combining specific studies that are devoted to the reconstruction of the prehistorical past on the basis of linguistic data with the focus on methodology and area-specific studies. We encourage submissions addressing (but not limited to) the following questions: * methods and data to explore prehistorical past of particular areas including research on migrations, ethnic or social composition of past societies * how to combine linguistic evidence with the archeological and/or genetic evidence in order to produce reliable conclusions * how to combine the traditional toponymic research with quantitative approaches * specific case studies on particular areas and locations * research on human past along the Daugava river Anonymized abstracts in PDF format should be submitted to the conference email at ling.archeo at gmail.com?by *December 1, 2024 **?December 8, 2024* * * Abstracts must be written in English and should not exceed one page (using 11pt font), excluding references and figures.? One person may submit up to two abstracts. Organizers: Ilja Ser?ant (University of Potsdam), Jens Schneewei? (University of Gottingen),? Dmitri Sitchinava (University of Potsdam). URL: https://sites.google.com/view/upld2025/home Best regards, Dmitri Sitchinava -- Prof. Ilja A. Ser?ant, dr., habil. Chair Slavic linguistics Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Potsdam Am Neuen Palais 10, Haus 01, D-14469 Potsdam Tel. + 49 331 977 4152; Room 1.1.2.06 URL:https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/slavische-linguistik/team/serzant Potsdam Slavic Variation Lab:https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/slavische-linguistik/slavic-variation-lab PoSla Typology Lab:https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/slavische-linguistik/posla-typology-lab -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From simone.mattiola at unipv.it Tue Dec 17 08:09:08 2024 From: simone.mattiola at unipv.it (SIMONE MATTIOLA) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 14:09:08 +0100 Subject: [Histling-l] Call for papers - Transalpine Typology Meeting 2025, Pavia (Italy) Message-ID: Dear all, We are very happy to announce the (re)launch of the *Transalpine Typology Meeting* (TTM) series. TTM is a network of linguists across the Alps interested in typology and linguistic diversity. The objective of TTM is to create an informal and fruitful typological network to facilitate the exchange of ideas and views and to be updated on other colleagues' research. The first TTM will be held at the *University of Pavia (Italy) on July 2-3, 2025*, and will be *free of charge*. Our plenary speaker will be *Sonia Cristofaro* (Sorbonn? University). We invite submissions for *oral presentations* on any topics related to typology and comparative linguistics in general from early-career researchers (PhD students, postdoc fellows, ...) and experienced scholars worldwide. Abstract (500 words) should be submitted via this online *form* . The deadline for paper submission is on *January 31, 2025*. The full CfP is attached as a PDF to this message and can also be found on the TTM website (here ). We're looking forward to welcoming you to Pavia! 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