From marc.olivier at ling-phil.ox.ac.uk Mon Jan 6 09:02:15 2025 From: marc.olivier at ling-phil.ox.ac.uk (Marc Olivier) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 14:02:15 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Diachronic Generative Syntax conference Message-ID: Dear Colleagues and Friends, We would like to send you a reminder about the 26th edition of DiGS, which will be held in Oxford from June, 23rd to June, 26th 2025. The abstract submission deadline is January, 27th. The conference will feature a half-day workshop entitled ?Investigating diachronic syntax with less-documented and unwritten languages: methods and theory?, which will take place on June 23rd. This year's conference will also feature a roundtable discussion for linguists to meet and discuss the legacy of the Penn corpora. Our confirmed invited speakers are: - Anne Breitbarth (Universiteit Gent) - Pierre Larriv?e (Universit? de Caen) - Ana Maria Martins (Universidade de Lisboa) - Jenneke van der Wal (Universiteit Leiden) We now invite abstract submissions for: - Oral presentations (30 minutes + 10 minutes for questions) - Workshop presentations (30 minutes + 10 minutes for questions) - Poster Presentations For more information about the conference and the workshop, and on how to submit an abstract, please visit our website: https://digs26.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/home The organising committee, Marc Olivier Afra Pujol i Campeny Anna Paradis -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This seminar series is run by Andrea Farina and Mathilde Bru (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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Abstracts for presentations can address a broad range of topics within typology and comparative linguistics, including (but not limited to): - Cross-linguistic comparison of specific phenomena on any level of analysis (phonology, morphosyntax, semantics, lexicon, pragmatics, discourse, ...). - Areal typology and language contact (e.g., areal patterns, Sprachbund, ...). - Diachronic typology and language change. - Typological perspectives on endangered and minority languages. - Quantitative and computational approaches to typological research. - Methodology of typological research. - Investigation of language-specific phenomena from a typological perspective. *Submission Guidelines:* Submissions should be anonymous and meet the following requirements: - Abstract length: Max. 500 words (including examples and figures, excluding references). - Format: PDF, 12-point font. - Language: English. Proposals can be submitted until *January 31, 2025*. 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The GWC2025 conference will host three keynote speakers: *Rada Mihalcea* (University of Michigan) *Marco Passarotti* (Universit? Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano) *Piek Vossen* (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) The conference will also include a special *panel on ancient languages* (Thursday, 11 AM -1 PM) Registration is open until January 20, 2025, at 00:00 (CET). For the full program, detailed registration information, accommodation options, and more, please visit the GWC2025 website: https://unipv-larl.github.io/GWC2025/program.html As part of the GWC2025 conference, there will be a free of charge *teach-in workshop*: *From Language to Action: How Large Language Models are Shaping Modern Business Strategies, delivered *by *Angela Caiazza (NTT DATA Italia)* . This workshop will take place at Almo Collegio Borromeo on January 27th, 2025 (16.30). More details, including booking a free seat, can be found at the following link: https://www.eventbrite.it/e/biglietti-global-wordnet-conference-gwc2025-1116337227699 Please feel free to share this announcement with your colleagues and across your networks. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at gwc2025pavia at unipv.it. We look forward to your participation! Kind regards, Erica Biagetti (also on behalf of the other members of the organization committee: Luca Brigada Villa, C. Roberta Combei, Tullio Facchinetti, Stefano Rocchi, Silvia Zampetta, Chiara Zanchi) -- [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... 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The abstract for this talk can be found here: https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/2024/12/31/grubsch/ The programme and registration links for all talks in the series can be found on our website: https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/2025-programme/ This seminar series is run by Andrea Farina and Mathilde Bru (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. Join our mailing list! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lauersdorf at uky.edu Thu Jan 16 13:19:13 2025 From: lauersdorf at uky.edu (Lauersdorf, Mark R.) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:19:13 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] =?windows-1252?q?2nd_Call_for_Abstracts_=96_NARNiHS?= =?windows-1252?q?_Research_Incubator_=96_Extended_submission_deadline!?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 2nd Call for Abstracts ? Extended Deadline! Never been to a NARNiHS Research Incubator?!? Take advantage of the newly extended abstract submission deadline to join us for this year's opportunity to brainstorm your cutting-edge work with us! *********************************** 2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics 7th edition *********************************** ==> 01-03 May 2025 ? entirely online! ==>?NEW!?Extended Submission Deadline ==> 03 February 2025, 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern Time) The 2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator is an entirely online event (with **free** registration).? This event offers an opportunity for scholars in historical sociolinguistics from all over the world to participate in cutting edge research without the limitations imposed by international travel.? We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars from related fields in our global scholarly community to join us online for our Research Incubator this spring. NEW!? Extended abstract submission deadline:? 03 February 2025, 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern Time) Abstract submission online: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/25_NARNiHS_Incubator/ The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its 2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator.? The 7th edition of this inclusive NARNiHS event seeks to provide a collaborative environment where presenters bring work that is in-progress, exploratory, proof-of-concept, or prototyping.? The incubator?s audience actively participates in workshopping these new ideas, brainstorming along with the presenter to forge scholarly paths and develop research solutions.? We see the NARNiHS Research Incubator as a place for testing and pushing boundaries; developing new theories, methods, models, and tools in historical sociolinguistics; seeking feedback from peers; and engaging in productive assessment of fledgling ideas and nascent projects. Successful abstracts for this research incubator environment will demonstrate thorough grounding in historical sociolinguistics, scientific rigor in the formulation of research questions, and promise for rich discussion of ideas. NARNiHS welcomes papers in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application/development of sociolinguistic theories, methods, and models for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives.? Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, and methodologies easily find their place within the field, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. We are soliciting abstracts for **25-minute presentations**.? Presenters will have the entire 25 minutes for their presentations, with discussion happening in the "incubation session" at the end of each panel.? Abstracts should be **no more than one page**?(not including examples and references, see below). Abstracts will be accepted until 03 February 2025?-- late abstracts will not be considered. Successful abstracts will be explicit about which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued.? Data sources and examples should be sufficiently (if briefly) presented, so as to allow reviewers a full understanding of the scope and claims of the research.? Please note that **the connection of your research to the field of historical sociolinguistics should be explicitly outlined**?in your abstract.? Failure to adhere to these criteria will likely result in rejection of the abstract. To encourage maximum exchange of ideas in the incubation environment, an hour-long discussion with the audience -- led by specialists -- will follow each thematic panel and will encompass specific feedback on three papers as well as emergent considerations of overarching questions of theory, methods, and models.? To facilitate such incubation, authors will be required to submit a draft of their presentation materials for distribution to the panel discussants and the other presenters a few days prior to the start of the conference. Abstract Content Requirements: 1)?Abstracts should be explicit about which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued. 2)?Data sources and examples should be sufficiently (if briefly) presented, so as to allow reviewers a full understanding of the scope and claims of the research. 3)?The connection of your research to the field of historical sociolinguistics should be explicitly outlined. Abstract Format Guidelines: 1)?Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. 2)?Abstracts must fit on one standard 8.5?11 inch page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12 point.? All additional content (visualizations, trees, tables, figures, captions, examples, and references) must fit on a single (1) additional page.? No exceptions to these requirements are allowed; abstracts exceeding these limits will be rejected without review. 3)?Anonymize your abstract.? We realize that sometimes complete anonymity is not attainable, but there is a difference between the nature of the research creating an inability to anonymize and careless non-anonymizing (in citations, references, file names, etc.).? 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 the file before submission).? Do not use your name when saving your PDF (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf); file names will not be automatically anonymized by the EasyAbs system.? Rather, use non-identifying information in your file name (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe.pdf).? Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission.? Papers that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible will be rejected without review. General Conference Requirements: 1)?Abstracts must be submitted electronically, using the following link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/25_NARNiHS_Incubator/ 2)?Papers must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. 3)?Authors are expected to virtually attend the conference and present their own papers. 4)?Presentations will be delivered via Zoom.? Technical details and instructions regarding the platform will be sent to authors in due time. Please contact us at NARNiHistSoc at gmail.com?with any questions. From F.Hicks at sms.ed.ac.uk Mon Jan 20 11:46:36 2025 From: F.Hicks at sms.ed.ac.uk (Fae Hicks) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:46:36 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Edinburgh Theoretical Historical Linguistics Seminar Message-ID: Hi! The first Edinburgh Theoretical Historical Linguistics Seminar (ETHL) will run from 16th - 17th April in Edinburgh! ETHL?s seminar structure is modelled on a summer school with a focus on discussion between historical linguists interested in linguistic theory and theoretical linguistics with a penchant for diachrony. Although this event is aimed at postgraduate and early career researchers we welcome participation from anyone interested in historical and theoretical linguistics! Over the two days we will have four two-hour seminars each led by an expert in theoretical historical linguistics addressing a different aspect of the intersection of historical and theoretical linguistics. Although the specifics of these seminars will be determined by the leader, they will follow the approximate structure of a lecture plus an extended discussion session. There will also be the option to present your research in a ?snap-talk?, essentially theoretical linguistics? answer to a poster ? more details here! To register your interest and be added to our mailing list or submit an abstract click here! Please note that abstract submissions close on 28th of February at 17:00 GMT. Best wishes, The organisers (Aldo Berrios Castillo and Fae Hicks) https://ethl.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 andrea.farina at kcl.ac.uk Tue Jan 21 05:50:18 2025 From: andrea.farina at kcl.ac.uk (Andrea Farina) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:50:18 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Seminar eight: UCL Lyceum Classics Community Seminar Series Message-ID: We are delighted to invite you to the eighth talk in the UCL Lyceum Classics Community Seminar Series for 2024/25. The seminar will be held both in person at UCL, Gordon House 209 (followed by a food and drinks reception) and remotely via Zoom on Wednesday, 29 January 2025, at 17:00 GMT. This session will feature a presentation by Federica Colella (Universit? degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli), titled: Healing from a wounded deity. A comparative study on the wounding of Aeneas (Aen. XII). To attend either in person or online, please register using the following link: https://forms.gle/qvd1HkQPVAkAvvCd9. Abstract: The wound-cure combination, a theme deeply rooted in both historical-literary and anthropological reflections, lies at the core of the episode depicting the wounding of Aeneas in Book XII of the Aeneid. This study aims to conduct a comparative analysis of this episode (XII, lines 389ff and 411ff) and a 4th-style Pompeian fresco, preserved at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN), from the triclinium of the House of Siricus, dating to the second half of the 1st century AD. The goal is to uncover new perspectives related to the lexicon of vulnerability and healing in Virgil?s poem, highlighting the extent to which this topic remains underexplored within the field of emotion studies. Additionally, the research examines the degree to which the narrative of this healing process aligns with Augustanpropaganda, which sought to translate the new imperial power into a unified literary and visual language. Both the literary text and the artwork portray Aeneas, leaning on his spear and immobilized by tears, as he is first treated and then unknowingly healed by the physician Iapyx (line 420, fovit ea vulnus lympha longaevos Iapyx ignarus), thanks to the miraculous intervention of Venus, who infecit occulte medicans spargitque salubris ambrosiae sucos et odoriferam panaceam (lines 418?419). Despite Iapyx?s surgical tools and his name associated with the Greek verb ?????? (?to heal?), the true therapeutic action, capable of fully erasing Aeneas? pain (lines 421?422), belongs to Venus. It is no coincidence that it is a deity, whose own divine perfection is violated (Aen. XI, line 277; Il. V, lines 335?340), who heals Aeneas? wound, transforming his human vulnerability into the foundation for the invulnerable political divinization of the future gens Iulia. The Lyceum Classics Community Seminars provide an international platform for postgraduate students and scholars with a shared passion for Classics and the Ancient Mediterranean World. Our aim is to foster interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration, offering a dynamic space for discussing new research and ideas. For more information about the seminar series, including upcoming talks, please visit the "Programme" section of our website: https://ucllyceumseminar.wordpress.com/programme/. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From serzant at uni-potsdam.de Wed Jan 22 05:47:17 2025 From: serzant at uni-potsdam.de (=?UTF-8?Q?Ilja_A=2E_Ser=C5=BEant?=) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 11:47:17 +0100 Subject: [Histling-l] CONF: "Uncovering past with linguistic data", Riga, March 13-15, LNB Message-ID: <6ea349d7-1ec2-4823-97ca-94421ba16059@uni-potsdam.de> Dear all, please find the program of our conference in March. If you would like to attend please register to ling.archeo at gmail.com asap. URL: https://sites.google.com/view/upld2025/home *March 13* *13.20-13.30* *Registration* ** *13.30-13.50* *Introduction: Dmitri Sitchinava* ** *13.50-14.50* *Invited talk: Petri Kallio* *Substrates in Finnic: Another update* *14.50-15.30* *Coffee break* ** *15.30-16.00* *Outi Vesakoski, Michael Dunn* ** *Synchronous and asynchronous development of linguistic and genetic landscapes* *16.00-16.30* *Pavel Iosad* *Phonological grammar and uncovering past language contacts* *16.30-17.00* *Ilja Ser?ant et al.* ** *TBA* *17.00-17.30* *Harald Hammarstr?m, Guillaume Segerer* *Toponyms and the Geographic Extension of Languages: A computational-visual approach* ** *March 14* *10.00-10.30* *Patrick O'Rourke* *Reconciling linguistics and archaeology: case of Livonian prehistory* *10.30-11.00* *Anthony Jakob* *The emergence of agriculture in the Eastern Baltic: an archaeolinguistic synthesis* *11.00-11.45* *Coffee break* ** *11.45-12.15* *??rhallur Ey??rsson* *The Celtic heritage in Icelandic: a re-assessment in light of recent linguistic and genetic studies* *12.15-12.45* *Natalia Perkova* *The prehistoric landscape of T?by (Stockholm area): accumulation of archaeological evidence in the context of the oldest place names* *12.45-13.15* *Bridget Drinka* ** *Ancient Indo-European contact and migration: linguistic, archaeological, and genomic evidence * *13.15-13.45* *Andrea Santamaria* *The Greek migrations between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age: a fresh view from linguistics, archaeology and paleogenetic* *13.45-15.30* *Lunch* ** *15.30-16.00* *Leonid Vyazov* *Correlation of Archaeogenetic, Archaeological, and Linguistic Data Suggests the Presence of a Slavic-Speaking Population in the Volga-Kama Region as Early as the 2nd Century CE* *16.00-16.30* *Michal Schwarz* *Linguo-religious complexes and their implications for the study of linguistic past* *16.30-17.00* *Vladimir Panov, Anton Tunin* *Aman aman bre: Co-occurrence of linguistic and cultural traits in Persianate - Mediterranean macroregion* *DINNER, 18.00* ** *March 15* *9.00-10.00* *Invited talk: Mat?as Guzm?n Naranjo* *TBA* *10.00-10.30* *Aritz Irurtzun, Carlo Geraci, Giorgia Miotti, Ricardo Etxepare, Ver?nica Fern?ndez-Navarro, Diego Garate and Olga Spaey* *Inferring the use of a sign language from Upper Palaeolithic hand stencils* *10.30-11.00* *Ian Joo* *Southward Han migration from a linguistic perspective* *11.00-11.45* *Coffee break* ** *11.45-12.15* *Olesya Khanina & Asap Idimeshev* *Linguistics and archaeology of the easternmost Uralic language area* *12.15-12.45* *John Peterson* *Urbanization, kingship and the spread of Indo-Aryan across northern South Asia* *12.45-13.15* *Jenni Santaharju et al.* *Drivers of the East-West human group boundary in Finland* *13.15-13.45* *Ilya Afanasev, Olga Lyashevskaya* *12th ? 14h century charters of the Baltic-Slavic contact region: qualitative exploration of* *quantitative analysis* *13.45-15.30* *Lunch* ** *15.30-16.00* *David Goldstein* *Reconstructing the past with linguistic data: The case of ancient Greek*** *16.00-16.30* *David Inman et al.* *A Bayesian analysis of linguistic areas in the Americas*** *16.30-17.00* *Frederic Blum et al.* *Tracing the Evolution of Pano Languages in Parallel with Archaeological Changes in the Ucayali Basin* -- Prof. Ilja A. Ser?ant, dr., habil. Chair Slavic Linguistics Department of Slavic 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 claire.bowern at yale.edu Mon Jan 27 07:49:53 2025 From: claire.bowern at yale.edu (Claire Bowern) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 07:49:53 -0500 Subject: [Histling-l] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_=5BDia-Junta=5D_Winter_2025_MASt_s?= =?utf-8?q?eminar=E2=80=94Joseph_and_Janse_on_Jan=2E_31?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [From Brian Joseph] In case you are interested ? Dear friends: on Friday of this week, January 31, the MASt initiative (standing for ?Meetings on Aegean Studies?) of the Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies will be hosting a duet of presentations on varieties of Modern Greek heavily impacted by contact with Turkish. I will present on the Greek of Adrianoupolis (present-day Edirne) during the era of the Ottoman empire, at 11:40 (EST), followed by a presentation at 12:30 by Mark Janse, Research Professor (retired) of the University of Ghent, speaking on Ottoman-era Cappadocian Greek (his specialty). These presentations will be broadcast on Zoom via the following link: *Winter 2025 MASt Seminar, Jan 31 (Joseph & Janse)* Linda Rocchi is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. 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Take advantage of the newly extended abstract submission deadline to join us for this year's opportunity to brainstorm your cutting-edge work with us! *********************************** 2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics 7th edition *********************************** ==> 01-03 May 2025 -- entirely online! ==> FINAL Submission Deadline ==> 03 February 2025, 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern Time) The 2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator is an entirely online event (with **free** registration). This event offers an opportunity for scholars in historical sociolinguistics from all over the world to participate in cutting edge research without the limitations imposed by international travel. We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars from related fields in our global scholarly community to join us online for our Research Incubator this spring. FINAL abstract submission deadline:? 03 February 2025, 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern Time) Abstract submission online: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/25_NARNiHS_Incubator/ The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its 2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator. The 7th edition of this inclusive NARNiHS event seeks to provide a collaborative environment where presenters bring work that is in-progress, exploratory, proof-of-concept, or prototyping. The incubator's audience actively participates in workshopping these new ideas, brainstorming along with the presenter to forge scholarly paths and develop research solutions. We see the NARNiHS Research Incubator as a place for testing and pushing boundaries; developing new theories, methods, models, and tools in historical sociolinguistics; seeking feedback from peers; and engaging in productive assessment of fledgling ideas and nascent projects. Successful abstracts for this research incubator environment will demonstrate thorough grounding in historical sociolinguistics, scientific rigor in the formulation of research questions, and promise for rich discussion of ideas. NARNiHS welcomes papers in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application/development of sociolinguistic theories, methods, and models for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, and methodologies easily find their place within the field, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. We are soliciting abstracts for **25-minute presentations**. Presenters will have the entire 25 minutes for their presentations, with discussion happening in the "incubation session" at the end of each panel. Abstracts should be **no more than one page** (not including examples and references, see below). Abstracts will be accepted until 03 February 2025 -- late abstracts will not be considered. Successful abstracts will be explicit about which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued. Data sources and examples should be sufficiently (if briefly) presented, so as to allow reviewers a full understanding of the scope and claims of the research. Please note that **the connection of your research to the field of historical sociolinguistics should be explicitly outlined** in your abstract. Failure to adhere to these criteria will likely result in rejection of the abstract. To encourage maximum exchange of ideas in the incubation environment, an hour-long discussion with the audience -- led by specialists -- will follow each thematic panel and will encompass specific feedback on three papers as well as emergent considerations of overarching questions of theory, methods, and models. To facilitate such incubation, authors will be required to submit a draft of their presentation materials for distribution to the panel discussants and the other presenters a few days prior to the start of the conference. Abstract Content Requirements: 1) Abstracts should be explicit about which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued. 2) Data sources and examples should be sufficiently (if briefly) presented, so as to allow reviewers a full understanding of the scope and claims of the research. 3) The connection of your research to the field of historical sociolinguistics should be explicitly outlined. Abstract Format Guidelines: 1) Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. 2) Abstracts must fit on one standard 8.5x11 inch page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12 point. All additional content (visualizations, trees, tables, figures, captions, examples, and references) must fit on a single (1) additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed; abstracts exceeding these limits will be rejected without review. 3) Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes complete anonymity is not attainable, but there is a difference between the nature of the research creating an inability to anonymize and careless non-anonymizing (in citations, references, file names, etc.). 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 the file before submission). Do not use your name when saving your PDF (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf); file names will not be automatically anonymized by the EasyAbs system. Rather, use non-identifying information in your file name (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe.pdf). Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. Papers that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible will be rejected without review. General Conference Requirements: 1) Abstracts must be submitted electronically, using the following link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/25_NARNiHS_Incubator/ 2) Papers must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. 3) Authors are expected to virtually attend the conference and present their own papers. 4) Presentations will be delivered via Zoom.? Technical details and instructions regarding the platform will be sent to authors in due time. Please contact us at NARNiHistSoc at gmail.com with any questions. From medievalist at w-sts.com Thu Jan 30 08:31:07 2025 From: medievalist at w-sts.com (Amy West) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 08:31:07 -0500 Subject: [Histling-l] Newbie syntax tree diagramming question: how to do non-continuous constituents? Message-ID: I apologize for asking this question re: using syntax tree diagramming programs: I'm working on Linux now, so I've been poking around at using the online syntax tree diagramming sites like Miles Shang's Syntree, RSyntaxTree, and jsSyntaxTree. What I can't figure out is how to have an arrow go from a label to a non-continuous member of a structure. For example: With "Jamie turned the light out", how to have an arrow go from the PV (phrasal verb) label to the Prt label and a line going straight down from VP to the NP ("the light"): I'm (shamefully) new to tree diagramming software. 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The submission deadline is now extended to 16 February 2025: do consider to submit an abstract! More information can be found at our website: https://ralfe2025.sciencesconf.org For further questions, do not hesitate to send us an email at ralfe2025 at univ-lille.fr. With best wishes, C?dric, Christopher, Gerhard, Lieven, Luca and Tanja From andrea.farina at kcl.ac.uk Thu Feb 6 03:47:16 2025 From: andrea.farina at kcl.ac.uk (Andrea Farina) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 08:47:16 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] =?windows-1252?q?Data_in_Historical_Linguistics_Sem?= =?windows-1252?q?inar_Series_=96_Seminar_3?= Message-ID: The third talk of the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series 2025 will take place remotely on Monday 17th February 2025 at 5pm GMT. Aline J?ssica Pires (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil) will be presenting on ?The evolution of differential object marking in Portuguese?. Registration for this talk will close at midnight on Friday 14th February and the link for this can be accessed here: https://forms.gle/gQHxzoQJDq48rtWv6 Participants will receive a Microsoft Teams link via email on the morning of the talk. The abstract for this talk can be found here: https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/2024/12/31/pires/ The programme and registration links for all talks in the series can be found on our website: https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/2025-programme/ This seminar series is run by Andrea Farina and Mathilde Bru (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. 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Registration for this talk will close at midnight on Friday 28th February and the link for this can be accessed here: https://forms.gle/BtGPLKMwyDzGopHGA Participants will receive a Microsoft Teams link via email on the morning of the talk. The abstract for this talk can be found here: https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/2024/12/31/blum/ The programme and registration links for all talks in the series can be found on our website: https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/2025-programme/ This seminar series is run by Andrea Farina and Mathilde Bru (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. 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A theme series is a collection of several original research articles on a particular theme that make, individually and collectively, significant contributions to sociolinguistics by raising novel questions or addressing current debates in the field. We advise authors to read the guidelines and ?How to get published in the *Journal of Sociolinguistics* ? (both available on our website) before drafting their proposals. Proposals should be submitted as PDF or Word documents to the editors ? Lauren Hall-Lew (lauren.hall-lew at ed.ac.uk), Jaspal Singh ( jaspal.singh at open.ac.uk), and Andrew Wong (andrew.wong at csueastbay.edu) ? between 1 June and 1 July, 2025. I hope you?ll consider submitting a theme series proposal! Please spread the word and tell your colleagues to submit as well. Best regards, Lauren, Jaspal, and Andrew -- Lauren Hall-Lew (she/her) Professor and Personal Chair of Sociolinguistics The University of Edinburgh http://laurenhall-lew.weebly.com/ Co Editor-in-Chief *Journal of Sociolinguistics* https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14679841 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. ------------------------------ 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... 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More information can be found here: https://www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/jobs/postdoc-indoeuropean.html Best, Paul From A.P.Berrios-Castillo at sms.ed.ac.uk Thu Mar 6 10:02:39 2025 From: A.P.Berrios-Castillo at sms.ed.ac.uk (Aldo Berrios Castillo) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2025 15:02:39 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Edinburgh Theoretical Historical Linguistics - Call for abstracts Message-ID: Hi all, Edinburgh Theoretical Historical Linguistics is a summer school style seminar focusing on the role of theory in historical linguistics and the relevance of historical linguistics to linguistic theory and is open to any linguist interested in the intersection of historical and theoretical work. ETHL will run on 16th and 17th of April 2025 in Edinburgh, with four discursive seminars providing insight into various aspects of theoretical historical linguistics led by Laura Grestenberger, Patrick Honeybone, Ranjan Sen, and George Walkden. The themes of the conference will then be brought together in a plenary talk by Theresa Biberauer. Furthermore, we will host a series of snap student talks which are essentially posters adapted for theoretical work (more info at https://ethl.uk/#snaptalks) - submit an abstract here by the 14th of March! Registration is now open and you can sign up here! Best wishes, The Organisers (Fae and Aldo) ? Aldo Berrios Castillo Research Student PhD Linguistics and English Language PPLS - LEL - University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th? ann an Oilthigh Dh?n ?ideann, cl?raichte an Alba, ?ireamh cl?raidh SC005336. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The abstract for this talk can be found here: https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/2024/12/31/radchankava/ The programme and registration links for all talks in the series can be found on our website: https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/2025-programme/ This seminar series is run by Andrea Farina and Mathilde Bru (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. Join our mailing list! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lauersdorf at uky.edu Sat Apr 19 15:53:45 2025 From: lauersdorf at uky.edu (Lauersdorf, Mark R.) Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2025 19:53:45 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] 2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator -- April 25-27 -- program now available In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ************************************************** *** Join us this coming weekend for the *** 2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator! ************************************************** ==> 25-27 April 2025 <== Consult the program for the richest Incubator line-up ever:?https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3075 Fourteen (14 !!!) exciting international projects in Historical Sociolinguistics and an expert roundtable! The event is fully online?and free?for NARNiHS members.? Not yet a NARNiHS member?? Membership is free:?https://narnihs.org/?page_id=2 Information concerning access to the online venue will be distributed through the NARNiHS members' listserv a few days before the event. We look forward to seeing you there! The 2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator organizing committee From andrea.farina at kcl.ac.uk Wed May 14 05:59:30 2025 From: andrea.farina at kcl.ac.uk (Andrea Farina) Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 09:59:30 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Data in Historical Linguistics seminar: Special panel on Treebanks for historical languages (Old Italian and Old Gascon) Message-ID: The last talks of the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series 2025 will take place remotely on TUESDAY 27 May 2025 at 5pm BST. We are delighted to host a special panel session on treebanks for historical languages, featuring two back-to-back talks, followed by a joint Q&A session. Claudia Corbetta (University of Pavia / Bergamo, Italy) will open the panel and present on ?The Sound of Silence in the Divine Comedy: toward a dependency analysis of predicate ellipses in the first Cantica of Dante Alighieri?s poem?. Barbara Francioni (University of Caen, France), Natasha Romanova (University of Caen, France) and Rayan Ziane (University of Orl?ans / University of Caen, France) will follow with a presentation titled ?First steps towards building a treebank of Old Gascon?. Registration for these talks will close at midnight on Friday 23rd May. Register here: https://forms.gle/PJi3MY7C9StMa3BR9 The registration form is the same for both talks, as well as the link you will receive to attend the panel session. If you wish to attend only the second talk, you will connect at 5.30pm BST. There will be one joint Q&A session at the end of both talks, at 6pm BST. Participants will receive a Microsoft Teams link via email on the morning of the talk. The abstract for both talks can be found here: https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/2024/12/31/corbetta-francioni-et-al/ Join our mailing list! 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Muircheartaigh (University of Edinburgh) * Sadie Ryan (University of Glasgow) ICLaVE is the premiere forum for research on language variation in Europe. It brings together scholars of languages and language varieties in Europe and elsewhere to discuss current empirical, methodological, and theoretical issues related to the study of language variation and change, broadly conceived. The theme of ICLaVE 13 is ?Language, Im/mobilities, and Belonging?. With this theme, we wish to explore the crucial role that linguistic variation plays in the construction, regimentation, and evaluation of communal belonging. We seek to showcase a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches to the topic, including research that engages with issues of im/mobility and belonging in novel and cross-disciplinary ways. FIRST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS ICLaVE 13 invites abstract submissions for the three presentation formats featured at the conference: individual papers (20 minutes), posters (dedicated session), and organized panels. Authors may submit two abstracts in total to the conference, if at least one is co-authored. This includes all types of contributions (papers, posters, panels). Panels (deadline: October 1, 2025): We invite proposals for a limited number of organized panels that engage directly with the conference theme. Panels can be either single-length (2 hours, 4 presentation slots) or double-length (4 hours, 8 presentations slots). To enable conference attendees to move between presentations, panels must keep to the regular conference schedule (i.e., 20-minute presentations followed by 10-minute discussion). Panel proposals must include: 1) a 500-word panel description, including a statement of how the panel relates to the conferences theme and its key questions, aims, and objectives, 2) a list of panel contributors, and 3) individual 500-word abstracts for each panel contribution. Anonymization for panel abstracts is not required and abstracts for discussants are not required. Note that participation in a panel (whether as organizer or contributor) counts as one of the two abstracts authors are permitted to submit. Abstracts can be submitted via the conference submission system: https://www.conftool.com/iclave13/ Individual Papers and Posters (deadline: November 1, 2025): We invite abstracts for individual 30-minute paper presentations (20-minute presentations followed by 10-minute discussion) and posters (showcased during a dedicated evening session). We welcome presentations of original research from a variety of theoretical and/or methodological perspectives (including sociolinguistics, dialectology, historical linguistics, sociology of language, and psycholinguistics, among others). We particularly encourage submissions that are related to the conference theme, though abstracts that deal with any aspect of variation in language use or the linguistic system are welcome. Abstracts must be fully anonymized and must not exceed?500 words, excluding title and references. Abstracts should provide information on the topic, data, methodology, and theoretical framework(s) of the contribution.? 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URL: From johncharles.smith at stcatz.ox.ac.uk Sat May 31 16:42:24 2025 From: johncharles.smith at stcatz.ox.ac.uk (John Charles Smith) Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 20:42:24 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] ISHL Nominations 2025 Message-ID: IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR ALL MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS Dear Friends and Colleagues, Several positions in the Society will fall vacant this year, and at the Business Meeting to be held during the Santiago ICHL a vote will be taken on proposals to fill these vacancies. I have now heard from the ISHL Nominating Committee, who have made the following nominations: i) FUTURE PRESIDENT / CONFERENCE DIRECTOR (for 2029) Eugenio Ram?n Luj?n Mart?nez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) ii) MEMBER OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (to serve until 2031) Martin Joachim K?mmel (Friedrich-Schiller-Universit?t Jena) iii) MEMBER OF NOMINATING COMMITTEE (to serve until 2033) Barbara Meisterernst (National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu) iv) SECRETARY As members will be aware, I announced some time ago that I would be stepping down as Secretary at the Santiago meeting. The Nominating Committee proposes Chiara Gianollo (Universit? di Bologna) as the new Secretary of the Society. With these nominations, the composition of the Society's Committees will be as follows: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE President and Director of the 2027 Conference: ??rhallur Ey??rsson (Reykjav?k) Future President and Conference Director (2029): Eugenio Ram?n Luj?n Mart?nez (Madrid) Former Conference Director: Ver?nica Mariel Orqueda (Santiago de Chile) Secretary: Chiara Gianollo (Bologna) Other Members: Joseph Salmons (Madison WI), until 2027 Sarah Grey Thomason (Ann Arbor MI), until 2029 Martin Joachim K?mmel (Jena), until 2031 NOMINATING COMMITTEE Chair: Eugen Hill (K?ln), until 2027 Other Members: Elly van Gelderen (Tempe AZ), until 2029 Nathan Hill (Dublin), until 2031 Barbara Meisterernst (Hsinchu), until 2033. According to the Society's Constitution, individual members may also make nominations. Should anyone wish to do so, could they please let both the Secretary (johncharles.smith at stcatz.ox.ac.uk) and the current Chair of the Nominating Committee (R.Mailhammer at westernsydney.edu.au) know by email as soon as possible, and in any event before 15 July. Nominations will require the signatures of six proposers and the written consent of the nominee. The nominee and all of the proposers should be members of the Society. I look forward to seeing you in Santiago. All good wishes, John Charles Smith Secretary, ISHL ? John Charles Smith St Catherine's College, Oxford, OX1 3UJ, UK Research Centre for Romance Linguistics, University of Oxford College phone: +44 1865 271700; College fax: +44 1865 271768 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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MA in linguistics or a related discipline ? previous academic experience relevant to the project; ? ability to work independently and as part of a team; ? fluency in English Desired ? a background in historical linguistics, syntax and/or construction grammar ? familiarity with corpus-linguistic methods We particularly encourage applications from women and minority candidates. Informal enquiries and applications for the positions should be submitted by email to project-cxgram at fau.de. The subject line should have the following format: Application PhD project no. 7 Applications should be in English and should contain the following: ? an academic CV; ? a cover letter explaining how you meet the recruitment criteria ? an academic writing sample in English (e.g., MA dissertation, essay, or a review of the literature relevant to the project); ? MA diploma ? details (name, affiliation, email, and relationship to you) of 2?3 academic referees. The interviews will be conducted via Zoom. 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In this workshop, several colleagues including Robert Ramsey, Marshall James Unger, Anna Bugaeva, Riikka L?nsisalmi, Tomomi Sato, Thomas Pellard, Bjarke Frellesvig, Sven Osterkamp, Martine Robbeets and Mark Hudson will take a moment to reflect on Elisabeth as a scientist and a person. We warmly welcome you to attend this event. Participation is free. For registration, please contact Martine Robbeets (robbeets at gea.mpg.de) including your name, affiliation and Email address. In case you wish to present, please send an abstract of ca. 250 words by 30 June 2025. Ideally, each presentation should include a personal account of your relation with Elisabeth, in addition to scientific content building on her research and teaching in Japanese historical linguistics. In the attachment, I added a description of the workshop in addition to an overview of Elisabeth?s most important publications. With Elisabeth in our thoughts, Martine Robbeets 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: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: MPI-Workshop-ForgetMeNot.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 2636392 bytes Desc: MPI-Workshop-ForgetMeNot.pdf URL: From shh35 at cam.ac.uk Fri Jun 13 08:01:19 2025 From: shh35 at cam.ac.uk (S.H. Hilmarsdottir) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 12:01:19 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Call for Papers: Sociolinguistic Variation in Ancient Languages. Towards Third Wave approaches and beyond Message-ID: Call for Papers: Sociolinguistic Variation in Ancient Languages. Towards Third Wave approaches and beyond We are pleased to announce a conference on Sociolinguistic Variation in Ancient Languages. Towards Third Wave approaches and beyond, which will take place at the University of Cambridge on 26-28 March 2026, at Jesus College and at the Faculty of Classics. The theme is how Third Wave approaches can enhance our understanding of variation in ancient languages, and how we can integrate such approaches with previous methodologies. Please find the full Call for Papers below (downloadable at svalconference.wordpress.com). The deadline for submissions is September 15 2025. Submissions (abstracts of 500 words, references excluded) should be sent to svalconference at gmail.com as anonymised PDF/Word documents. We would be grateful if you could circulate this CFP to any colleagues or networks that may be interested. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at svalconference at gmail.com and to check the conference website at svalconference.wordpress.com. The Organisers S?lveig Hilmarsd?ttir (University of Cambridge) and Dalia Pratali Maffei (Ghent University) - - - Call for Papers: Sociolinguistic Variation in Ancient Languages. Towards Third Wave approaches and beyond Overview ??Date: 26-28 March 2026 Location: Jesus College and Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, UK Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 September 2025 Notification of outcome: 15 October 2025 Organisers: S?lveig Hilmarsd?ttir (Cambridge) and Dalia Pratali Maffei (Gent) Keynote Speakers: Penelope Eckert, Eleanor Dickey and Klaas Bentein Website: svalconference.wordpress.com Email: svalconference at gmail.com Third Wave Variationism is the most recent approach to the study of sociolinguistic variation, spearheaded by Eckert (see Eckert 2008). First and Second Wave sociolinguistic studies focussed mainly on the correlation between linguistic variables and social groups, either from macro categories, such as e.g. class, age, and gender, or categories significant within local communities (Weinreich, Labov, & Herzog 1968). Third Wave approaches, on the other hand, are mostly stylistic and conceive of variation as a social semiotic system, where language variants index meaning which is reflected by but also constructed in the context. Speakers are seen to act as the main force of the construction of this meaning and its change. Work within the Third Wave has argued that different linguistic variants are not directly correlated to social categories or to a specific social meaning, but that their meaning is unspecified and dynamic, and that it is activated by the usage of variables in different contexts (Hall-Lew, Moore and Podesva 2021). A central concept is the ?indexical field?, i.e. the set of potential meanings linked to a linguistic variant (Eckert 2012). As society changes, speakers can associate new meanings with linguistic variants and, in reverse, new contexts of usage can activate new meanings, both at a conscious or at an unconscious level. Some steps have been taken towards integrating Third Wave approaches to the study of historical languages like Late Medieval and Late Modern English (e.g., Conde-Silvestre 2016; Garc?a-Vidal 2023). Nevertheless, the sociolinguistic study of ancient languages has up until now mostly been tackled from First and Second Wave perspectives (e.g. Horrocks 2010; Adams 2013; Mancini 2014) and it requires different methods (cf. e.g., Bentein 2019). Many aspects of ancient linguistic data differ from the data commonly dealt with in historical sociolinguistics; our data are e.g., purely written and often transmitted indirectly (such as in the process of manuscript transmission). In the case of ancient inscriptions, we often lack information about writers as well as (intended) readers, and metalinguistic testimonia often postdate our primary sources by several centuries. In addition, tracing the reallocation of social meaning is often challenged by the lack of quantitative data for the frequency of linguistic variables in certain contexts in the first place. Recent scholarship on Post-Classical Greek papyri has brought Third Wave approaches to the study of pragmatic and lexical elements and their interaction with the paratext, such as e.g. materiality and layout, rather than morpho-phonologocal features (cf. e.g. the volume edited by Bentein 2024). This conference aims to explore more broadly how qualitative Third Wave approaches can enhance our understanding of variation in ancient languages, and how we can integrate such approaches with previous quantitative methods. Languages with large corpora of varying text types, such as Greek and Latin, clearly lend themselves well to this type of analysis; we also encourage submissions from other ancient language traditions, from the Mediterranean area or further afield, and from other language families. Research questions may include but are not limited to: * How do we develop methodologies for applying Third Wave approaches to texts from the ancient world? * How can we apply the framework of indexicalities to intra/inter-language variation in ancient sources? * How did different stylistic processes come together to produce social meaning, and how can we identify these? * Can we trace the construction of different meanings through the co-occurrence of features, rather than features in isolation? Did the usage of features in different registers or genres have an impact on the construction of their meaning? * Are there linguistic levels more prone to variation and therefore association with meanings than others? How do features inherently indexical to a specific context (such as deictics) interact with features not inherently indexical? * How can we complement our data with metalinguistic sources? How did local and social meanings interact with wider macro-social categories? Can we trace diachronic changes in social meanings in parallel with socio-cultural and ideological shifts? Call The conference will take place at the University of Cambridge on 26-28 March 2026, at Jesus College and at the Faculty of Classics. There will also be a chance to attend online; online presentations can be arranged in exceptional circumstances. We invite abstracts in English of up to 500 words (references excluded) from researchers at all career stages (PhD students included), with a focus on early career scholars. Papers focussing on methodological approaches will be especially welcome, but we will also consider papers dealing mainly with new data and corpora. Accepted papers will be 20 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes for questions. Abstracts should be submitted as anonymised Word/PDF documents by 15th September 2025 to svalconference at gmail.com. Notice of acceptance will be given on 15th October 2025. We plan to have ca. 15-20 papers across the three days, along with the three longer keynote talks. Note that for those interested, we intend to publish selected papers as a volume or as a special issue (more information to follow in due course). A conference dinner will take place on the evening of Friday March 27. References Adams, J.N. (2013). Social Variation and the Latin Language, Cambridge. Beintein, K. (2019). ?Dimensions of social meaning in Post-classical Greek: Towards an integrated approach?, Journal of Greek Linguistics 19, 119?167. Bentein, K. (2024). ?Exploring Frame-Based Approaches to Everyday Communication in Antiquity?, in K. Bentein (ed.), Everyday Communication in Antiquity: Frames and Framings, 1?30. Conde-Silvestre, J.C. (2016). ?A ?Third-Wave? Historical Sociolinguistic Approach to Late Middle English Correspondence: Evidence from the Stonor Letters?. Russi, C. (ed.), Current Trends in Historical Sociolinguistics. Warsaw; Berlin: De Gruyter Open, 46?66. Eckert, P. (2012). ?Three Waves of Variation Study: The Emergence of Meaning in the Study of Sociolinguistic Variation?, Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 41, 87?100. Garc?a-Vidal, T. (2023). ?Contextualising Third-Wave Historical Sociolinguistics?, IJES 23(2), 1?14. Hall-Lew, L., E. Moore and R. J. Podesva. (2021) ?Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation: Theoretical Foundations.? In L. Hall-Lew, E. Moore and R. J. Podesva (eds.), Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation: Theorizing the Third Wave, Cambridge, 1?24. Horrocks, G. (2010). Greek: A History of the Language and Its Speakers, Chichester. Mancini, M. (2014). ?Testi epigrafici e sociolinguistica storica: le ?defixiones? sannite?, Istituto Lombardo - Accademia Di Scienze E Lettere. Incontri Di Studio, 29?61. Weinrich, U., Labov, W., Herzog, M. (1968). Empirical Foundations for a Theory of Language Change, Texas. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From joseph.1 at osu.edu Fri Jun 20 01:10:55 2025 From: joseph.1 at osu.edu (Joseph, Brian) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 05:10:55 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Announcing a special issue of Pedagogical Linguistics on historical linguistics Message-ID: A special issue of the journal Pedagogical Linguistics (published by John Benjamins) that is of interest to historical linguists is about to appear. The theme of the special issue (Vol. 6, No. 2) is ?Historical Linguistics at School? and it is edited by Theodore Markopoulos and me (Brian Joseph). It contains a brief introduction by the editors and 7 articles dealing with different aspects of how historical linguistics can be used in the classroom setting at the secondary school level (i.e. the equivalent of high schools). The papers offer case-studies from the situation in various countries, including the UK, the USA, Slovenia, Greece, Turkey, and Norway. The authors are Jessica DeLisi, Benjamin Goddard, Francesca Iezzi, Pavel Iosad, Will Reynolds, Graeme Trousdale, Brian D. Joseph, Shuan O. Karim, Clint K Awai-Jennings, Jerneja Kav?i?, Andreja Inkret, Theodore Markopoulos, Konstantinos Sampanis, Dilara Kaplan, Urd Vindenes, Eli Anne Eiesland, and Signe Laake. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lauersdorf at uky.edu Sat Jun 21 07:42:45 2025 From: lauersdorf at uky.edu (Lauersdorf, Mark R.) Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 11:42:45 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] =?windows-1252?q?Call_for_Abstracts_=96_NARNiHS_202?= =?windows-1252?q?6_=96_8th_Annual_Meeting_of_the_North_American_Research_?= =?windows-1252?q?Network_in_Historical_Sociolinguistics?= In-Reply-To: References: <7040A80E-0A32-49C4-AEA2-15D2AC12257D@uky.edu> Message-ID: *** NARNiHS 2026 *** North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics *** Eighth Annual Meeting *** 100% IN PERSON *** Co-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting *** New Orleans, Louisiana USA *** 8-11 January 2026 This event offers an opportunity for historical sociolinguistics scholars from all over the world to gather and share leading research. We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars in related fields from our global scholarly community to ** join us in New Orleans **?for our Eighth Annual Meeting. Consult this Call for Abstracts on the web:? https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3135 . --------------- Call for Abstracts ---------------. Abstract submission online: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NARNiHS_26/ . Deadline:? Friday, 15 August 2025, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time. Late abstracts will not be considered. The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its Eighth Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Thursday, January 8 -- Sunday, January 11, 2026. The 8th edition of this inclusive NARNiHS event seeks to provide a collaborative environment where presenters bring fully developed work for presentation and enrichment. We see the NARNiHS Annual Meeting as a place for showcasing excellent projects in historical sociolinguistics, seeking feedback from peers, and engaging in productive development of the field?s enduring questions. NARNiHS welcomes papers in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application and/or development of sociolinguistic theories, methods, and models for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, methodologies, and adjacent disciplines easily find their place within historical sociolinguistics, 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. Successful abstracts will demonstrate *thorough grounding* in historical sociolinguistics, *scientific rigor* in the formulation of research questions, and promise for rich discussion of ideas. Successful abstracts will be explicit about which *theoretical frameworks*, *methodological protocols*, and *analytical strategies* are being applied or critiqued. *Data sources and examples* should be sufficiently presented, so as to allow reviewers a full understanding of the scope and claims of the research. Please note that the *connection of your research to the field of historical sociolinguistics* should be explicitly outlined in your abstract. Failure to adhere to these criteria will likely result in rejection. ? Abstract Format Guidelines: - Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. - Abstracts must fit on one 8.5x11 inch page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12 point. You are encouraged to use the entire page, providing a full and robust description of the research. All additional supporting content (visualizations, trees, tables, figures, captions, examples, and references) must fit on a single (1) additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed; abstracts longer than one page or with more than one additional page of supporting content will be rejected without review. - Specify if you prefer your submission be considered primarily for a poster presentation. - Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes complete anonymity is not attainable, but there is a difference between the nature of the research creating an inability to anonymize and careless non-anonymizing (in citations, references, file names, etc.). 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 the file before submission). Do not use your name when saving your PDF (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf); file names will not be automatically anonymized by the EasyAbs system. Rather, use non-identifying information in your file name (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe.pdf). Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. Papers that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible will be rejected without review. General Requirements: - Abstracts must be submitted electronically using the following link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NARNiHS_26/ . - Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts: One single-author abstract and one co-authored abstract. - Authors may not submit identical abstracts for presentation at the NARNiHS annual meeting and the LSA annual meeting or another LSA sister society meeting (ADS, ANS, NAHoLS, SCiL, SPCL, or SSILA). - After submission, no changes of author, title, or wording of the abstract may occur. If your abstract is accepted, adjustment of typographical errors is permitted before a final version of the abstract is printed in the conference booklet. - Papers and posters must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. - Authors are expected to attend the conference in-person and present their own papers and posters. This will not be a hybrid event. 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The details for the event can be found on the ESHP7 website: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/symposium-on-historical-phonology/eshp7/ The call for papers is also now open. Do send us your abstracts by the 15th of August via the following platform: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/ESHP7/ We hope to see many of you in Edinburgh this December! The Organisers Aldo Berr?os Castillo Julian Bradfield Ziche Chen Patrick Honeybone Fae Hicks Pavel Iosad Brandon Kieffer Jakub Musil Pia Lehecka Benjamin Molineaux Richard West-Soley 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 caitlin.e.wilson at kcl.ac.uk Mon Jun 23 05:22:09 2025 From: caitlin.e.wilson at kcl.ac.uk (Caitlin Wilson) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 09:22:09 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] =?utf-8?q?CALL_FOR_ABSTRACTS=2E_Conference=3A_Quant?= =?utf-8?q?itative_Diachronic_Linguistics_and_Cultural_Analytics=2C_15-16_?= =?utf-8?q?January_2026=2C_King=E2=80=99s_College_London?= Message-ID: Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics and Cultural Analytics: Data-Driven Insights into Language and Cultural Change 15?16 January 2026 | King?s College London, Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS We invite submissions for the conference Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics and Cultural Analytics: Data-Driven Insights into Language and Cultural Change, to be held at King?s College London (Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS) on 15?16 January 2026. The conference is funded by the London Arts & Humanities Partnership. See the conference webpage. Language is in constant flux, shaped by social, cultural, and cognitive forces over time. With the increasing availability of large-scale textual data and computational tools, researchers are now better equipped than ever to uncover patterns and mechanisms of language change. This two-day conference explores the intersection of quantitative diachronic linguistics and cultural analytics, providing a platform for researchers working with computational and data-driven methods to investigate how language evolves and how these changes relate ? directly or broadly ? to cultural dynamics. We welcome contributions that engage with any aspect of historical linguistics and diachronic language analysis, provided they incorporate quantitative approaches and offer insights into the interplay between linguistic and cultural change. Confirmed keynote speakers are Dr Barbara McGillivray (King?s College London) and Prof Eric Round (University of Surrey), who will offer complementary perspectives on quantitative methods on different languages. Submission Guidelines * We invite submissions for 20-minute presentations, followed by 10 minutes of discussion. * Abstracts should be a maximum of 400 words (excluding references) and must include the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s). * Please submit your abstract as a .docx file via email to: quantitative.diachronic.ling at gmail.com. Use the following subject line: ?ABSTRACT Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics? Deadline: 25 September 2025, 23:59 BST Suggested Topics (non-exhaustive list) Submissions may include (but are not limited to) the following areas, with no restrictions on language(s) or historical periods: * Quantitative studies of language change across time * Corpus-based analyses of language evolution * Computational modelling of diachronic syntax, semantics, morphology, etc. * Cross-linguistic comparisons using large-scale data * Language change in connection with historical, literary, or cultural trends * Digital methods for exploring linguistic and cultural shifts * Applications of cultural analytics to linguistic data. Important Dates * 25 September 2025: Abstract Submission Deadline * 31 October 2025: Notification of Acceptance (after peer review) * 15?16 January 2026: Conference Dates For any inquiries, please contact the organisers, Andrea Farina (andrea.farina at kcl.ac.uk) or Caitlin Wilson (caitlin.e.wilson at kcl.ac.uk). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eugen.hill at uni-koeln.de Wed Jul 16 05:36:28 2025 From: eugen.hill at uni-koeln.de (Eugen Hill) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 11:36:28 +0200 Subject: [Histling-l] thematic issue on loan-word research Message-ID: <20250716113628.Horde.BUqMWPDi8VA0vCHd-k91scz@webmail.uni-koeln.de> The International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction (IJDL, https://reichert-verlag.de/zeitschriften/ijdl_zeitschrift) is preparing a thematic issue on historical loan-word research, loan etymologies, and related matters. The target languages are all members of the Indo-European language family and their (historical) neighbours such as Uralic, Turkic, etc. Papers dealing with theoretical and/or methodological aspects of loan-word research (such as the role of loan-words in establishing and dating ancient migrations, establishing and dating phonological change, etc.) are especially welcome. Papers addressing theoretical and/or methodological issues may also deal with other languages and/or areals than Indo-European and its surroundings. All papers submitted to the thematic issue will be peer-reviewed and, if accepted, receive a doi. The contributions should be sent by 1st October 2025 per e-mail to prof. dr. Eugen Hill (University of Cologne, eugen.hill at uni-koeln.de). -- Prof. Dr. Eugen Hill Historisch-Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft Institut f?r Linguistik Universit?t zu K?ln D-50923 K?ln Tel: +(49) 221 470 - 2282 Fax: +(49) 221 470 - 5947 From lauersdorf at uky.edu Sat Jul 19 21:11:24 2025 From: lauersdorf at uky.edu (Lauersdorf, Mark R.) Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 01:11:24 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] 2nd Call -- NARNiHS 2026 -- 8th Annual Meeting of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *********************************** ***** 2nd?Call for Abstracts ***** *********************************** *** NARNiHS 2026 *** North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics *** Eighth Annual Meeting *** 100% IN PERSON *** Co-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting *** New Orleans, Louisiana USA *** 8-11 January 2026 This event offers an opportunity for historical sociolinguistics scholars from all over the world to gather and share leading research. We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars in related fields from our global scholarly community to **join us in New Orleans** for our Eighth Annual Meeting. Consult this Call for Abstracts on the web: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3135?. --------------- Call for Abstracts ---------------. Abstract submission online: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NARNiHS_26/?. Deadline: Friday, 15 August 2025, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time. Late abstracts will not be considered. The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its Eighth Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Thursday, January 8 -- Sunday, January 11, 2026. The 8th edition of this inclusive NARNiHS event seeks to provide a collaborative environment where presenters bring fully developed work for presentation and enrichment. We see the NARNiHS Annual Meeting as a place for showcasing excellent projects in historical sociolinguistics, seeking feedback from peers, and engaging in productive development of the field?s enduring questions. NARNiHS welcomes papers in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application and/or development of sociolinguistic theories, methods, and models for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, methodologies, and adjacent disciplines easily find their place within historical sociolinguistics, 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. Successful abstracts will demonstrate *thorough grounding* in historical sociolinguistics, *scientific rigor* in the formulation of research questions, and promise for rich discussion of ideas. Successful abstracts will be explicit about which *theoretical frameworks*, *methodological protocols*, and *analytical strategies* are being applied or critiqued. *Data sources and examples* should be sufficiently presented, so as to allow reviewers a full understanding of the scope and claims of the research. Please note that the *connection of your research to the field of historical sociolinguistics* should be explicitly outlined in your abstract. Failure to adhere to these criteria will likely result in rejection. *** Abstract Format Guidelines***. - Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. - Abstracts must fit on one 8.5x11 inch page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12 point. You are encouraged to use the entire page, providing a full and robust description of the research. All additional supporting content (visualizations, trees, tables, figures, captions, examples, and references) must fit on a single (1) additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed; abstracts longer than one page or with more than one additional page of supporting content will be rejected without review. - Specify if you prefer your submission be considered primarily for a poster presentation. - Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes complete anonymity is not attainable, but there is a difference between the nature of the research creating an inability to anonymize and careless non-anonymizing (in citations, references, file names, etc.). 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 the file before submission). Do not use your name when saving your PDF (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf); file names will not be automatically anonymized by the EasyAbs system. Rather, use non-identifying information in your file name (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe.pdf). Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. Papers that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible will be rejected without review. *** General Requirements ***. - Abstracts must be submitted electronically using the following link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NARNiHS_26/?. - Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts: One single-author abstract and one co-authored abstract. - Authors may not submit identical abstracts for presentation at the NARNiHS annual meeting and the LSA annual meeting or another LSA sister society meeting (ADS, ANS, NAHoLS, SCiL, SPCL, or SSILA). - After submission, no changes of author, title, or wording of the abstract may occur. If your abstract is accepted, adjustment of typographical errors is permitted before a final version of the abstract is printed in the conference booklet. - Papers and posters must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. - Authors are expected to attend the conference in-person and present their own papers and posters. This will not be a hybrid event. Contact us at NARNiHistSoc at gmail.com with any questions. From robbeets at gea.mpg.de Sun Jul 20 08:35:25 2025 From: robbeets at gea.mpg.de (Robbeets, Martine) Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 12:35:25 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Ecology-Language Relationship through Time 16-18 September 2025 at MPI-GEA in Jena Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Paul Heggarty and I would like to invite you to our conference ?The Ecology-Language Relationship through Time?, which will take place on 16-18 September 2025 in V14 at the Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology in Jena. You can download the program at the following link https://shh-cloud.gnz.mpg.de/index.php/s/e49FocJDHeYAdiC Participation is free. We greatly appreciate your in-person attendance. Since we want to arrange catering for lunch and coffee breaks, it would be very helpful if you could register before the end of August at robbeets at gea.mpg.de including your name, affiliation and Email address. We warmly welcome you to attend this event. Best wishes, Martine and Paul 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... 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Methods conferences have progressively extended their topical range and now include the whole spectrum of regional, historical, and social language variation, as reflected in the now expanded conference name. The Methods series welcomes contributions investigating *any of the world?s languages*. In recent years Methods has been hosted in Japan (2017), Germany (2022) and Australia (2024). In 2026, the conference returns to Canada and will be held, *in person, *in the west coast city of Vancouver. This marks a return to the traditional triennial schedule that was disrupted in 2020 by Covid-19. *Methods XIX at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver* Methods XIX invites submissions for paper and poster presentations, as well as proposals for special sessions. The conference will be held on UBC?s Point Grey Campus, hosted by the Department of English Language and Literatures and the Department of Linguistics. *Plenary speakers* *Anita Auer* (Universit? de Lausanne, Switzerland) *Andrew Garrett* (University of California, Berkeley, United States) *Ruth King* (York University, Canada) *Conference Theme: ?Rethinking Our Assumptions?* Building on the Indigenous focus of Methods XVIII in Melbourne 2024, the conference theme encourages researchers to also reflect on their tradition?s presuppositions. For instance, UBC is built on unceded Indigenous land, as is much of Canada. Dialectologists have often played key roles in processes of colonization, enabling the dominance of colonial languages and ignoring or subjugating Indigenous languages. As conduits in the creation of nation states, dialectologists have had their fair share in the making and unmaking of (standardized) varieties. We, as their in-field successors today, ought to confront our own work with that disciplinary legacy. *Important dates for Methods XIX:* Special Session proposal deadline: *31 October 2025* (results communicated by 20 Nov. 2025) Abstract deadline: *30 November 2025* (results communicated by 21 Jan. 2026) Registration opens: 1 Feb. 2025 Early bird rate ends: 1 March 2025 Registration closes: 21 July 2025 (anticipated registration fees: Cdn$ 230 regular, $120 student) *Call for Special Session proposals (due 31 October 2025)* We invite proposals for special sessions, which will be held throughout the conference. Such sessions may be concerned with particular methodological instruments, technological innovations, special themes, or a focus on a language or language group. Each session proposal should explain the rationale for the session, including an overview of the topic and a statement about its relevance to Methods XIX. The rationale must not exceed 500 words and should be followed by the individual presenters? abstracts (in accordance with the below general session guidelines). Include at least 50% of the contributions with full-length abstracts. If you would like to organise a special session, please submit your proposal with a complete list of speakers and the necessary number of abstracts (4-8 slots available per special session, 2-4 hours in total) by *October 31, 2025*. Results will be communicated by *30 November 2025*. Send your special session proposal to methodsxix at dchp.ca *Call for abstracts: general session (due 30 November 2025)* We invite abstracts for the following presentation formats: - full paper (20 mins presentation + 10 mins discussion) - poster (incl. a 5-minute presentation in the Poster Pitch Session) Abstracts must be anonymous and not exceed 300 words for full papers and posters. References are not included in the word count. Please submit anonymous files in pdf format. 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URL: From Benjamin.Molineaux at ed.ac.uk Wed Aug 6 11:51:03 2025 From: Benjamin.Molineaux at ed.ac.uk (Ben Molineaux Ress) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2025 15:51:03 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] CfP: Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <9E16BBC0-BECA-4017-B9B7-18FCD753940E@ed.ac.uk> With apologies for cross-posting 2nd (and final) Call For Papers for the Seventh Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology (ESHP7) Dear all, This is just a quick reminder that abstracts are still being accepted (until 15 August) for ESHP, to take place on 1 and 2 December 2025. The details for the event can be found on the ESHP7 website: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/symposium-on-historical-phonology/eshp7/ We hope to see many of you in Edinburgh! The Organisers ---- Benjamin Molineaux (he/him), Senior Lecturer in Linguistics The University of Edinburgh benmolineaux.ppls.ed.ac.uk Depute Director and Secretary, Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics https://www.amc.lel.ed.ac.uk/ On 30 Jun 2025, at 17:41, Ben Molineaux Ress wrote: With apologies for cross-posting Dear All, We are delighted to announce the seventh iteration of the Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology (ESHP7), which is to take place on 1 and 2 December 2025 (in Edinburgh, of course). ESHP is a biennial event focusing on innovation and propagation of phonological change, as well as the reconstruction of past phonological states. At every symposium, among the regular talks and posters, we also invite a plenary speaker to address foundational issues in the discipline over two one-hour slots. This year, our plenary speaker is David Natvig (University of Stavanger). The details for the event can be found on the ESHP7 website: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/symposium-on-historical-phonology/eshp7/ The call for papers is also now open. Do send us your abstracts by the 15th of August via the following platform: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/ESHP7/ We hope to see many of you in Edinburgh this December! The Organisers Aldo Berr?os Castillo Julian Bradfield Ziche Chen Patrick Honeybone Fae Hicks Pavel Iosad Brandon Kieffer Jakub Musil Pia Lehecka Benjamin Molineaux Richard West-Soley 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 gerhard.jaeger at uni-tuebingen.de Mon Aug 18 04:37:26 2025 From: gerhard.jaeger at uni-tuebingen.de (=?UTF-8?Q?Gerhard_J=C3=A4ger?=) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2025 10:37:26 +0200 Subject: [Histling-l] =?utf-8?q?Job_opening=3A_Assistent_Professor_=28AR_?= =?utf-8?q?auf_Zeit=29_at_T=C3=BCbingen_University?= Message-ID: <7fa775a2-8a03-40f0-afbb-cea984b6cd0b@uni-tuebingen.de> The following position is available in the Department of Linguistics beginning January 1st, 2026. **Academic Councillor non-tenured (German: Akademischer Rat auf Zeit) (m/f/d; grade A 13)** The position is to be filled for an initial period of 3 years, with the possibility of renewal for another 3 years. The responsibilities of the position holder include teaching according to the requirements of the LVVO (two courses per semester), as well as research in the field of General Linguistics, and administrative duties. Requirements for employment are an excellent PhD in a relevant field (linguistics, cognitive science, computational linguistics, etc.), the ability to teach in the field of General Linguistics in English, and the ability to conduct independent scientific research in the field (as evidenced, e.g., by relevant publications). A specialization in language variation, combined with quantitative methods, will be considered a plus. The University of T?bingen aims to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching and therefore invites applications from suitably qualified female scientists. The University of T?bingen is committed to equity and diversity and actively promotes equal opportunities. Equally qualified candidates with disabilities will be given preference in the hiring process. Please send your application with the usual documents (motivation letter, extensive CV, list of publications, contact details of three potential referees; everything in a single pdf file) by October 15, 2025, to Prof. Dr. Gerhard J?ger, Keplerstr. 2, 72074 T?bingen, e-mail: [gerhard.jaeger at uni-tuebingen.de](mailto:gerhard.jaeger at uni-tuebingen.de). The hiring process will be managed by the Central Administration. -- Prof. Dr. Gerhard J?ger Universit?t T?bingen Seminar f?r Sprachwissenschaft Tel.: +49-7071-29-77302 https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/181684 From daliappmm at gmail.com Wed Aug 20 17:44:53 2025 From: daliappmm at gmail.com (Dalia Pratali Maffei) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:44:53 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] REMINDER - SVAL. Sociolinguistic Variation in Ancient Languages. Towards Third Wave approaches and beyond Message-ID: REMINDER Cfp - SVAL. Sociolinguistic Variation in Ancient Languages. Towards Third Wave approaches and beyond Deadline September 15 We are pleased to announce a conference on Sociolinguistic Variation in Ancient Languages. Towards Third Wave approaches and beyond, which will take place at the University of Cambridge on 26-28 March 2026, at Jesus College and at the Faculty of Classics. The theme is how Third Wave approaches can enhance our understanding of variation in ancient languages, and how we can integrate such approaches with previous methodologies. Please find the full Call for Papers below (downloadable at svalconference.wordpress.com). The deadline for submissions is September 15 2025. Submissions (abstracts of 500 words, references excluded) should be sent to svalconference at gmail.com as anonymised PDF/Word documents. We would be grateful if you could circulate this CFP to any colleagues or networks that may be interested. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at svalconference at gmail.com and to check the conference website at svalconference.wordpress.com. The Organisers S?lveig Hilmarsd?ttir (University of Cambridge) and Dalia Pratali Maffei (Ghent University) - - - Call for Papers: Sociolinguistic Variation in Ancient Languages. Towards Third Wave approaches and beyond Overview Date: 26-28 March 2026 Location: Jesus College and Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, UK Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 September 2025 Notification of outcome: 15 October 2025 Organisers: S?lveig Hilmarsd?ttir (Cambridge) and Dalia Pratali Maffei (Gent) Keynote Speakers: Penelope Eckert, Eleanor Dickey and Klaas Bentein Website: svalconference.wordpress.com Email: svalconference at gmail.com Third Wave Variationism is the most recent approach to the study of sociolinguistic variation, spearheaded by Eckert (see Eckert 2008). First and Second Wave sociolinguistic studies focussed mainly on the correlation between linguistic variables and social groups, either from macro categories, such as e.g. class, age, and gender, or categories significant within local communities (Weinreich, Labov, & Herzog 1968). Third Wave approaches, on the other hand, are mostly stylistic and conceive of variation as a social semiotic system, where language variants index meaning which is reflected by but also constructed in the context. Speakers are seen to act as the main force of the construction of this meaning and its change. Work within the Third Wave has argued that different linguistic variants are not directly correlated to social categories or to a specific social meaning, but that their meaning is unspecified and dynamic, and that it is activated by the usage of variables in different contexts (Hall-Lew, Moore and Podesva 2021). A central concept is the ?indexical field?, i.e. the set of potential meanings linked to a linguistic variant (Eckert 2012). As society changes, speakers can associate new meanings with linguistic variants and, in reverse, new contexts of usage can activate new meanings, both at a conscious or at an unconscious level. Some steps have been taken towards integrating Third Wave approaches to the study of historical languages like Late Medieval and Late Modern English (e.g., Conde-Silvestre 2016; Garc?a-Vidal 2023). Nevertheless, the sociolinguistic study of ancient languages has up until now mostly been tackled from First and Second Wave perspectives (e.g. Horrocks 2010; Adams 2013; Mancini 2014) and it requires different methods (cf. e.g., Bentein 2019). Many aspects of ancient linguistic data differ from the data commonly dealt with in historical sociolinguistics; our data are e.g., purely written and often transmitted indirectly (such as in the process of manuscript transmission). In the case of ancient inscriptions, we often lack information about writers as well as (intended) readers, and metalinguistic testimonia often postdate our primary sources by several centuries. In addition, tracing the reallocation of social meaning is often challenged by the lack of quantitative data for the frequency of linguistic variables in certain contexts in the first place. Recent scholarship on Post-Classical Greek papyri has brought Third Wave approaches to the study of pragmatic and lexical elements and their interaction with the paratext, such as e.g. materiality and layout, rather than morpho-phonologocal features (cf. e.g. the volume edited by Bentein 2024). This conference aims to explore more broadly how qualitative Third Wave approaches can enhance our understanding of variation in ancient languages, and how we can integrate such approaches with previous quantitative methods. Languages with large corpora of varying text types, such as Greek and Latin, clearly lend themselves well to this type of analysis; we also encourage submissions from other ancient language traditions, from the Mediterranean area or further afield, and from other language families. Research questions may include but are not limited to: ? How do we develop methodologies for applying Third Wave approaches to texts from the ancient world? ? How can we apply the framework of indexicalities to intra/inter-language variation in ancient sources? ? How did different stylistic processes come together to produce social meaning, and how can we identify these? ? Can we trace the construction of different meanings through the co-occurrence of features, rather than features in isolation? Did the usage of features in different registers or genres have an impact on the construction of their meaning? ? Are there linguistic levels more prone to variation and therefore association with meanings than others? How do features inherently indexical to a specific context (such as deictics) interact with features not inherently indexical? ? How can we complement our data with metalinguistic sources? How did local and social meanings interact with wider macro-social categories? Can we trace diachronic changes in social meanings in parallel with socio-cultural and ideological shifts? Call The conference will take place at the University of Cambridge on 26-28 March 2026, at Jesus College and at the Faculty of Classics. There will also be a chance to attend online; online presentations can be arranged in exceptional circumstances. We invite abstracts in English of up to 500 words (references excluded) from researchers at all career stages (PhD students included), with a focus on early career scholars. Papers focussing on methodological approaches will be especially welcome, but we will also consider papers dealing mainly with new data and corpora. Accepted papers will be 20 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes for questions. Abstracts should be submitted as anonymised Word/PDF documents by 15th September 2025 to svalconference at gmail.com. Notice of acceptance will be given on 15th October 2025. We plan to have ca. 15-20 papers across the three days, along with the three longer keynote talks. Note that for those interested, we intend to publish selected papers as a volume or as a special issue (more information to follow in due course). A conference dinner will take place on the evening of Friday March 27. References Adams, J.N. (2013). Social Variation and the Latin Language, Cambridge. Beintein, K. (2019). ?Dimensions of social meaning in Post-classical Greek: Towards an integrated approach?, Journal of Greek Linguistics 19, 119?167. Bentein, K. (2024). ?Exploring Frame-Based Approaches to Everyday Communication in Antiquity?, in K. Bentein (ed.), Everyday Communication in Antiquity: Frames and Framings, 1?30. Conde-Silvestre, J.C. (2016). ?A ?Third-Wave? Historical Sociolinguistic Approach to Late Middle English Correspondence: Evidence from the Stonor Letters?. Russi, C. (ed.), Current Trends in Historical Sociolinguistics. Warsaw; Berlin: De Gruyter Open, 46?66. Eckert, P. (2012). ?Three Waves of Variation Study: The Emergence of Meaning in the Study of Sociolinguistic Variation?, Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 41, 87?100. Garc?a-Vidal, T. (2023). ?Contextualising Third-Wave Historical Sociolinguistics?, IJES 23(2), 1?14. Hall-Lew, L., E. Moore and R. J. Podesva. (2021) ?Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation: Theoretical Foundations.? In L. Hall-Lew, E. Moore and R. J. Podesva (eds.), Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation: Theorizing the Third Wave, Cambridge, 1?24. Horrocks, G. (2010). Greek: A History of the Language and Its Speakers, Chichester. Mancini, M. (2014). ?Testi epigrafici e sociolinguistica storica: le ?defixiones? sannite?, Istituto Lombardo - Accademia Di Scienze E Lettere. Incontri Di Studio, 29?61. Weinrich, U., Labov, W., Herzog, M. (1968). Empirical Foundations for a Theory of Language Change, Texas. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk Fri Aug 22 05:40:54 2025 From: Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk (Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2025 09:40:54 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] New OA volume on "Cyclic Change in Grammar and Discourse" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Cyclic Change in Grammar and Discourse (Oxford Studies in Historical and Diachronic Linguistics 54) Eds. Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen & Richard Waltereit Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2025. https://academic.oup.com/book/60716 Abstract This Open Access volume explores the long-held assumption that language change may proceed in a cyclical fashion. Cyclic change has recently attracted renewed interest, notably with respect to the evolution of negation (viz. the famous Jespersen Cycle) but also in relation to a wide range of other phenomena. Individual contributions take as their point of departure the hypothesis that cyclic change is pragmatically driven and analyse forms of cyclicity in morpho-syntax, the lexicon, and semantics and pragmatics, as well as interaction between these levels. They discuss the epistemological status of cycles; explore their relationship with other forms of change; examine the limits of the notion of cycles in language change; and discuss cyclicity from a cognitive-pragmatic and sociopragmatic perspective. The contributions form two clusters, with some overlap. The first cluster (Cyclic Change in Grammar) concentrates on changes to sentence grammar, whereas the second cluster of chapters (Cyclic Change in Discourse) looks at cyclic phenomena at the level of discourse grammar, as well as sociopragmatic phenomena. Both clusters feature a diverse range of case studies. The object languages are mainly Indo-European languages and language families, but Semitic, Sinitic, and Austronesian languages are also included. The contributions cover change involving negative constructions, demonstratives, possessives, modals, conditionals, aspectual adverbs, forms of coordination, modal particles, discourse connectives, address terms, and farewell routines. At the theoretical level, contributions are concerned with the place of cycles of pragmaticalization within a broader typology of change, with different forms of cyclicity, and with the cross-linguistic mechanisms that trigger cyclic and related changes. Keywords: cyclicity, grammaticalization, pragmaticalization, meaning change, discourse -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tamas.kovacs at uni-graz.at Tue Sep 9 05:15:42 2025 From: tamas.kovacs at uni-graz.at (=?UTF-8?B?S292w6FjcyBUYW3DoXM=?=) Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2025 11:15:42 +0200 Subject: [Histling-l] CfP IMC 2026 Temporalities: linguistic and cultural boundaries Message-ID: *Dear Colleagues,* The University of Graz?s Department of Digital Humanities, on behalf of the ERC-funded project ?From Digital to Distant Diplomatics? (DiDip), warmly invites submissions for a series of three interconnected sessions at the *International Medieval Congress 2026* in Leeds. Our sessions will address the conference theme of *?Temporalities?* by exploring the evolution of late medieval charters (c. 1300?1500). We are particularly interested in contributions that examine the dissemination of documentary conventions across *linguistic and cultural boundaries*, and how computational methods can reveal patterns of change in multilingual legal contexts. We aim to bridge historical perspectives with computational methods (NLP, Computer Vision) to explore the dynamic evolution of documentary culture across Latin and vernacular traditions. For a detailed overview of our sessions, please visit our full call for papers here: *https://didip.hypotheses.org/3832 * We welcome papers for the following three sessions: - *Session 1: The Historical Perspective* ? Exploring how legal formulas and scribal practices adapted and traveled across different chanceries and linguistic regions. - *Session 2: The NLP Perspective* ? Using computational techniques to analyze formulaic legal terminology, trace textual transmission, and decode diachronic language change across different languages and dialects. - *Session 3: The Computer Vision Perspective* ? Applying machine learning to analyze how the visual and material formulaic aspects of charters (scripts, layouts, seals) evolved differently across European regions and cultures. *Submission Guidelines:* - Please submit a *100-word abstract* and a *brief CV*. - Send your submission to: *didip at uni-graz.at * - Use the subject line: *IMC2026* The submission deadline is *September 24th, 2025.* We look forward to your contributions. Sincerely, The ERC DiDip Team University of Graz -- 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 mathilde.bru at googlemail.com Mon Sep 15 10:43:54 2025 From: mathilde.bru at googlemail.com (Mathilde Bru) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 10:43:54 -0400 Subject: [Histling-l] Call for abstracts: Data in Historical Linguistics 2026 Seminars Message-ID: <06919814-2760-4F12-AAEA-402F2AE65063@googlemail.com> Join our mailing list: https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/join-us/ We are pleased to announce that the call for abstracts for the third series of the Data in Historical Linguistics seminar series is now open. These seminars will be run by King?s College London and are mostly aimed at PhD students and Early Career Researchers (ECRs). 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. Following on from the success of the first two series, we hope that this third seminar series will continue to nurture international collaboration and establish academic ties among researchers working on similar topics in this field. Seminars will start in January 2026 and will last one hour. This year, we welcome abstracts for two possible formats: Research presentation: a 30-minute talk, followed by 30 minutes of discussion. Interactive session: a 45-minute hands-on workshop in which the speaker presents and demonstrates digital/computational tools, with opportunities for participants to experiment with the tool themselves, followed by 15 minutes of discussion. All seminars will be held remotely via Microsoft Teams on Mondays at 5pm GMT. They will provisionally be held fortnightly, depending on the number of speakers. We invite proposals from PhD students and ECRs working on Historical Linguistics, with an emphasis on quantitative approaches. Abstracts (maximum 400 words) should describe the dataset (language, size, object, methodology) and specify whether the analysis was conducted manually or computationally. Abstracts and personal information (name, surname, affiliation, email address) should be sent to either of the two convenors, Andrea Farina (andrea.farina at kcl.ac.uk) or Mathilde Bru (mathilde.bru at gmail.com). The deadline for the abstracts is 5th December 2025. All this information is readily available at our website: https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/ From robin.meyer at unil.ch Thu Sep 18 05:53:33 2025 From: robin.meyer at unil.ch (Robin Meyer) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:53:33 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] =?utf-8?q?2nd_CfP=3A_13th_International_Conference_?= =?utf-8?q?on_Language_Variation_in_Europe_=28ICLaVE_13=29__=E2=80=93_Laus?= =?utf-8?q?anne=2C_29_June_=E2=80=93_2_July_2026?= Message-ID: 13th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 13) Lausanne, 29 June ? 2 July 2026 https://iclave13.ch/ The 13th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 13), co-organized by the University of Bern and the University of Lausanne, will be held at the University of Lausanne from 29 June ? 2 July 2026. We are delighted to feature the following invited plenary speakers: * Andrea Ender (Paris Lodron Universit?t Salzburg) * In?s Fern?ndez-Ord??ez (Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid) * Peadar ? Muircheartaigh (University of Edinburgh) * Sadie Ryan (University of Glasgow) ICLaVE is the premiere forum for research on language variation in Europe. It brings together scholars of languages and language varieties in Europe and elsewhere to discuss current empirical, methodological, and theoretical issues related to the study of language variation and change, broadly conceived. The theme of ICLaVE 13 is ?Language, Im/mobilities, and Belonging?. With this theme, we wish to explore the crucial role that linguistic variation plays in the construction, regimentation, and evaluation of communal belonging. We seek to showcase a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches to the topic, including research that engages with issues of im/mobility and belonging in novel and cross-disciplinary ways. SECOND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS ICLaVE 13 invites abstract submissions for the three presentation formats featured at the conference: individual papers (20 minutes), posters (dedicated session), and organized panels. Authors may submit two abstracts in total to the conference, if at least one is co-authored. This includes all types of contributions (papers, posters, panels). Abstracts and conference presentations can be in English, German, French, or Italian. Panels (deadline: October 1, 2025): We invite proposals for a limited number of organized panels that engage directly with the conference theme. Panels can be either single-length (2 hours, 4 presentation slots) or double-length (4 hours, 8 presentations slots). To enable conference attendees to move between presentations, panels must keep to the regular conference schedule (i.e., 20-minute presentations followed by 10-minute discussion). Panel proposals must include: 1) a 500-word panel description, including a statement of how the panel relates to the conferences theme and its key questions, aims, and objectives, 2) a list of panel contributors, and 3) individual 500-word abstracts for each panel contribution. Anonymization for panel abstracts is not required and abstracts for discussants are not required. Note that participation in a panel (whether as organizer or contributor) counts as one of the two abstracts authors are permitted to submit. Abstracts can be submitted via the conference submission system: https://www.conftool.com/iclave13/ Individual Papers and Posters (deadline: November 1, 2025): We invite abstracts for individual 30-minute paper presentations (20-minute presentations followed by 10-minute discussion) and posters (showcased during a dedicated evening session). We welcome presentations of original research from a variety of theoretical and/or methodological perspectives (including sociolinguistics, dialectology, historical linguistics, sociology of language, and psycholinguistics, among others). We particularly encourage submissions that are related to the conference theme, though abstracts that deal with any aspect of variation in language use or the linguistic system are welcome. Abstracts must be fully anonymized and must not exceed?500 words, excluding title and references. Abstracts should provide information on the topic, data, methodology, and theoretical framework(s) of the contribution.? Abstracts can be submitted via the conference submission system: https://www.conftool.com/iclave13/ We look forward to seeing you in Lausanne in 2026! 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ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Abstracts should be submitted through EasyAbs maintained by the LINGUIST List. Please ensure that the abstract is properly anonymised in order to allow for blind review. * The call opens on 1 October 2025. * Please submit your abstract by 15 December 2025. * Notification of acceptance by 15 March 2026. Organising committee Marina Albers, Stephan Elspa?, Laura Fischlhammer, Imke Mendoza, Tatsiana Nazaranka, Konstantin Niehaus, Simon Pickl, Bernhard P?ll & Erik Schleef Please contact us at Hison2026(at)plus.ac.at if you have any questions. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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You can find the program and the webinar registration at the links below Webinar registration link https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/webinar/register/WN_yLiRgwW0QO21pi8Xbf8Irg Program https://shh-cloud.gnz.mpg.de/index.php/s/x4xPWnmZ4Hy6B8E With Elisabeth in our thoughts, Martine 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 r.mairs at reading.ac.uk Sat Oct 18 07:54:55 2025 From: r.mairs at reading.ac.uk (Rachel Mairs) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2025 12:54:55 +0100 Subject: [Histling-l] Associate Editor position for Language & History Message-ID: Associate Editor position for Language & History Language & History is accepting applications for one or more Associate Editors. We are looking for a reliable candidate with good organizational skills and wide-ranging interests in the history of linguistic ideas, who wants to help our editorial team keep on top of the rigorous peer-reviewed publishing process and ensure a timely publication schedule. Responsibilities include: ? Assisting the Lead Editor with peer-review workflow and updating the journal?s online Editorial Management System ? Corresponding with prospective journal authors ? Contacting reviewers, monitoring timely return of peer-review reports, and overseeing the revision process for ca 4?5 articles per year ? Ensuring compliance of submissions with journal policies, style and formatting requirements ? Assisting with copy-editing of articles accepted for publication and proofreading typeset proofs This is a volunteer position, but the successful candidate can avail of a free annual subscription to the Henry Sweet Society ( https://www.henrysweet.org). We are seeking applicants with an excellent command of written English, a strong background in the subject-area of the journal, a keen eye for detail and an interest in developing their knowledge of academic publishing. Candidates should be comfortable with learning to use an online submission system (training will be provided). A minimum 3-year commitment to the Language & History team is preferable. For more information about the journal, see https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ylhi20/current. Applicants should send a CV (max. 2 pages) and brief cover letter outlining your suitability for the role to the Lead Editor of the journal, Professor Rachel Mairs (r.mairs at reading.ac.uk) by no later than Friday 21 November 2025. -- ----- Professor Rachel Mairs Professor of Classics and Middle Eastern Studies Department of Classics, University of Reading Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AA r.mairs at reading.ac.uk Lead Editor, *Language & History*: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ylhi20 Publications: http://reading.academia.edu/RachelMairs Hellenistic Central Asia Research Network: www.bactria.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From serzant at uni-potsdam.de Mon Oct 20 05:26:06 2025 From: serzant at uni-potsdam.de (=?UTF-8?Q?Ilja_A=2E_Ser=C5=BEant?=) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:26:06 +0200 Subject: [Histling-l] Please sign the petition to save the Intitute of Latvian Language Message-ID: <3fd132b7-c0e0-431f-a58a-8781ee0d1d49@uni-potsdam.de> Dear colleagues, *I apologize for this request for help which might be a bit of an offtopic. But we desperately need your help here in signing this petition. * Latvian is not an endangered language (although some of its varieties are) but it certainly not a very well studied language. Crucially, its research was extremely underfunded in the recent years, amounting to only two full positions (external grants excluded) or 10 in total instead of earlier 50 full-time positions. Needless to say, what an impact this has on our colleagues, linguists working on Latvian and in Latvia. So your help in signing the petition would be very much appreciated. I attach the full text of the petition. You may sign quickly under the link below: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf_OznuJ_c2ZWArBb5RA8-p2qs3yE0K99DugV9b5Pu9DYjB0A/viewform?usp=dialog Many thanks in advance! Ilja (Ser?ant) -- Prof. Ilja A. Ser?ant, dr., habil. Chair Slavic Linguistics Department of Slavic 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 serzant at uni-potsdam.de Mon Oct 20 05:32:30 2025 From: serzant at uni-potsdam.de (=?UTF-8?Q?Ilja_A=2E_Ser=C5=BEant?=) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:32:30 +0200 Subject: [Histling-l] Please sign the petition to save the Intitute of Latvian Language In-Reply-To: <3fd132b7-c0e0-431f-a58a-8781ee0d1d49@uni-potsdam.de> References: <3fd132b7-c0e0-431f-a58a-8781ee0d1d49@uni-potsdam.de> Message-ID: Dear colleagues, *I apologize for this request for help which might be a bit of an offtopic. But we desperately need your help here in signing this petition. * Latvian is not an endangered language (although some of its varieties are) but it certainly not a very well studied language. Crucially, its research was extremely underfunded in the recent years, amounting to only two full positions (external grants excluded) or 10 in total instead of earlier 50 full-time positions. Needless to say, what an impact this has on our colleagues, linguists working on Latvian and in Latvia. So your help in signing the petition would be very much appreciated. I attach the full text of the petition. You may sign quickly under the link below: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf_OznuJ_c2ZWArBb5RA8-p2qs3yE0K99DugV9b5Pu9DYjB0A/viewform?usp=dialog Many thanks in advance! Ilja (Ser?ant) -- Prof. Ilja A. Ser?ant, dr., habil. Chair Slavic Linguistics Department of Slavic 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: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Muircheartaigh (University of Edinburgh) * Sadie Ryan (University of Glasgow) ICLaVE is the premiere forum for research on language variation in Europe. It brings together scholars of languages and language varieties in Europe and elsewhere to discuss current empirical, methodological, and theoretical issues related to the study of language variation and change, broadly conceived. The theme of ICLaVE 13 is ?Language, Im/mobilities, and Belonging?. With this theme, we wish to explore the crucial role that linguistic variation plays in the construction, regimentation, and evaluation of communal belonging. We seek to showcase a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches to the topic, including research that engages with issues of im/mobility and belonging in novel and cross-disciplinary ways. THIRD AND FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS ICLaVE 13 invites abstract submissions for the three presentation formats featured at the conference: individual papers (20 minutes), posters (dedicated session), and organized panels. Authors may submit two abstracts in total to the conference, if at least one is co-authored. This includes all types of contributions (papers, posters, panels). Abstracts and conference presentations can be in English, German, French, or Italian. Individual Papers and Posters (deadline: November 1, 2025): We invite abstracts for individual 30-minute paper presentations (20-minute presentations followed by 10-minute discussion) and posters (showcased during a dedicated evening session). We welcome presentations of original research from a variety of theoretical and/or methodological perspectives (including sociolinguistics, dialectology, historical linguistics, sociology of language, and psycholinguistics, among others). We particularly encourage submissions that are related to the conference theme, though abstracts that deal with any aspect of variation in language use or the linguistic system are welcome. Abstracts must be fully anonymized and must not exceed?500 words, excluding title and references. Abstracts should provide information on the topic, data, methodology, and theoretical framework(s) of the contribution.? Abstracts can be submitted via the conference submission system: https://www.conftool.com/iclave13/ We look forward to seeing you in Lausanne in 2026! On behalf of the Organising Committee, Robin ___________ Robin MEYER Professeur assistant en linguistique diachronique Pr?sident, Section des sciences du langage et de l?information 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 johncharles.smith at stcatz.ox.ac.uk Tue Oct 21 10:29:57 2025 From: johncharles.smith at stcatz.ox.ac.uk (John Charles Smith) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:29:57 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] CIPL Newsletter no. 13 Message-ID: Dear Friends and Colleagues, CIPL (the Comit? international permanent des linguistes) has asked me to circulate details of its latest Newsletter (no. 13), which has just been published. In addition to news of recent and forthcoming events and publications, it contains details of the travel grants which CIPL offers to enable advanced students who have not yet completed a doctorate to give papers at international conferences. The newsletter can be found at: https://mailchi.mp/40c5ca2685a3/cipl-newsletter-18241704 With all good wishes, JC ? John Charles Smith St Catherine's College, Oxford, OX1 3UJ, UK Research Centre for Romance Linguistics, University of Oxford College phone: +44 1865 271700; College fax: +44 1865 271768 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andrea.farina at kcl.ac.uk Mon Oct 27 06:00:00 2025 From: andrea.farina at kcl.ac.uk (Andrea Farina) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] Call for abstracts: Data in Historical Linguistics 2026 Seminars Message-ID: Join our mailing list! We are pleased to announce that the call for abstracts for the third series of the Data in Historical Linguistics seminar series is now open. These seminars will be run by King?s College London and are mostly aimed at PhD students and Early Career Researchers (ECRs). 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. Following on from the success of the first two series, we hope that this third seminar series will continue to nurture international collaboration and establish academic ties among researchers working on similar topics in this field. Seminars will start in January 2026 and will last one hour. This year, we welcome abstracts for two possible formats: * Research presentation: a 30-minute talk, followed by 30 minutes of discussion. * Interactive session: a 45-minute hands-on workshop in which the speaker presents and demonstrates digital/computational tools, with opportunities for participants to experiment with the tool themselves, followed by 15 minutes of discussion. All seminars will be held remotely via Microsoft Teams on Mondays at 5pm GMT. They will provisionally be held fortnightly, depending on the number of speakers. We invite proposals from PhD students and ECRs working on Historical Linguistics, with an emphasis on quantitative approaches. Abstracts (maximum 400 words) should describe the dataset (language, size, object, methodology) and specify whether the analysis was conducted manually or computationally. Abstracts and personal information (name, surname, affiliation, email address) should be sent to either of the two convenors, Andrea Farina (andrea.farina at kcl.ac.uk) or Mathilde Bru (mathilde.bru at gmail.com). The deadline for the abstracts is 5th December 2025. All this information is readily available at our website: https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We encourage both formal analyses, regardless of the theoretical framework adopted, and rigorous descriptive studies based on new empirical data and/or innovative methodological approaches. The deadline for abstract submission is 5 January 2026, and the conference languages are French, Occitan and English. The guest speakers are Sam Wolfe (University of Oxford) and Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle University). All information is available on our website: https://sites.google.com/view/grams-workshop We look forward to welcoming you to Dublin for this first edition of GRAMS! Kind regards, Marc -- Dr Marc Olivier-Loiseau (he/him) Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Centre for Language & Communication Studies - Trinity College Dublin Executive Member | Societas Linguistica Europaea Website: https://www.m-olivierloiseau.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Rutten Hoogleraar Nederlandse Taalkunde / Professor of Dutch Linguistics Voorzitter BA Taalwetenschap / Chair BA Linguistics Editor Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics Universiteit Leiden | Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen - Leiden University Centre for Linguistics | Reuvensplaats 3-4, k. 2.24 | 2311 BR Leiden | +31715272112 | www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/gijsbert-rutten Classified as Internal | Intern -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The successful candidate will design and curate a 1-million-token Latin corpus, conduct annotation of word senses in the corpus, and conduct case studies on Latin semantic change and variation. Location: Strand Campus, London Fixed-term: 3 years Closing date for applications: 2 December 2025 Full details and application link: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130725-post-doctoral-research-associate-in-latin-linguistics Please feel free to share this with anyone who might be interested. Best wishes, Dr Barbara McGillivray, FHEA | @BarbaraMcGilli Senior Lecturer in Digital and Cultural Humanities and convenor of the MA programme in Digital Humanities Room 3.28, Department of Digital Humanities, King?s College London, Strand Campus, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS Group lead of the Computational Humanities Research Group Open Research Lead, Faculty of Arts and Humanities Editor-in-chief of Journal of Open Humanities Data -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From claire.bowern at yale.edu Tue Nov 18 16:49:27 2025 From: claire.bowern at yale.edu (Claire Bowern) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:49:27 -0500 Subject: [Histling-l] Lecturer position in historical linguistics Message-ID: https://apply.interfolio.com/177395 The Department of Linguistics at Yale University is looking to hire a Lecturer in Historical Linguistics, with a 3-year appointment, beginning July 1, 2026. The Lecturer will offer introductory and advanced courses and advise student research in historical linguistics/language change at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The teaching expectation is normally 4 courses per academic year, plus advising responsibilities. The focus of the courses would be historical linguistics/language change, but the Lecturer will also offer other courses that help us meet the needs of our curriculum, which will be determined based on their areas of expertise. The position is open as to specialization within historical linguistics. We particularly welcome applications from people whose work focuses on sound change, Indigenous or endangered languages, and/or quantitative approaches to language change. Qualifications The appointee must hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree or have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. by the time this appointment starts. Application Instructions Applicants should submit an application through Interfolio at this link: https://apply.interfolio.com/177395 Applications should include the following materials: 1. a cover letter 2. a current CV 3. a teaching statement 4. a research statement 5. three representative pieces of research 6. the names and email addresses of three referees 7. evidence of teaching and advising excellence, such as syllabi or course evaluations Timeline: To ensure full consideration, applications should be submitted by December 20, 2025. Review of applications will begin shortly thereafter. Later applications may be considered until the position is filled. 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The workshop series DELPASIMO is devoted to the formal grammar of historical languages, primarily from a synchronic (rather than diachronic) perspective. The conference is open for work on phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. The following speakers have confirmed their attendance: - Nora Boneh (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - David Embick (UPenn) - Laura Grestenberger (University of Vienna) We now invite abstract submissions for DELPASIMO 4. Oral presentations will be 30 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Abstracts should be anonymous and no longer than two A4 pages, including references and examples, in 12-point Times New Roman, with margins of at least 2,5 cm / 1 inch. Submissions are limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint abstract per author. ? Abstracts are to be submitted in pdf-format to the following address: delpasimo.nice at gmail.com. The deadline for submission of abstracts is December 15, 2026. Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2026. ? Fur any further inquiries, the organizers can be contacted at delpasimo.nice at gmail.com. Further information about DELPASIMO 4 will be posted in due time at the conference website: https://sites.google.com/view/delpasimonice/home The organizing committee of DELPASIMO 4 (consisting of Nicolas Bertrand, Carlo Cecchetto, Lieven Danckaert, Richard Faure, L?a Nash, Diego Pescarini and Mauro Vigan?) is looking forward to welcoming you in Nice! From lauersdorf at uky.edu Wed Nov 19 19:44:44 2025 From: lauersdorf at uky.edu (Lauersdorf, Mark R.) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:44:44 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] program now set for the Eighth Annual Meeting of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The program for NARNiHS 2026 -- the Eighth Annual Meeting of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics -- is now set: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3160 We look forward to seeing you in New Orleans for a full day of robust discussion of Historical Sociolinguistics at the LSA Annual Meeting on 9 January 2026. And then all are welcome to join us for the NARNiHS General Meeting the next day. If you can't make it to the conference, check out the abstracts linked to the online program and get in touch with our presenters to find out more about their innovative work in the field. And please contact us at NARNiHistSoc at gmail.com to find out more about how NARNiHS can help you develop your work in Historical Sociolinguistics. Kelly Elizabeth Wright NARNiHS Convenor on behalf of the NARNiHS 2026 organizers From sophie.prevost at ens.psl.eu Fri Nov 28 06:51:28 2025 From: sophie.prevost at ens.psl.eu (=?utf-8?Q?Sophie_Pr=C3=A9vost?=) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:51:28 +0100 Subject: [Histling-l] Conference : Grammaticalization and Diachronic Construction Grammar: Convergences and Challenges (France, 30-Sep-2026 - 02-Oct-2026) Message-ID: <001801dc605d$553d7bb0$ffb87310$@ens.psl.eu> Dear colleagues, Could you please circulate the announcement below? Best regards, Sophie Pr?vost *********************************************** Sophie Pr?vost Lattice UMR 8094 CNRS, ENS-PSL Universit? & Universit? Sorbonne Nouvelle 1 rue Maurice Arnoux F-92120 Montrouge tel : +33 1 58 07 66 22 http://www.lattice.cnrs.fr *********************************************** Conference : Grammaticalization and Diachronic Construction Grammar: Convergences and Challenges Date: 30-Sep-2026 - 02-Oct-2026 Location: Montpellier, France Contact: Eric Melac Contact Email: eric.melac at univ-montp3.fr Meeting URL: https://grmzion-dc-xg26.sciencesconf.org/ Submission Deadline: 13-Mar-2026 Keynote Speakers: Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck, Leipzig) Martin Hilpert (Uni. of Neuch?tel) Sophie Pr?vost (CNRS ? Lattice) Graeme Trousdale (Uni. of Edinburgh) Keynote Discussant: Bernd Heine (Uni. of Cologne) ?Grammaticalization? (a term introduced by Meillet in 1912) has been the subject of numerous studies, which have highlighted regularities in the emergence of grammatical forms across typologically diverse languages. Grammaticalization refers both to a type of change (and sometimes its result) and to a framework for analysing such change. As a type of change, many of the definitions that have been proposed can be formulated as follows: the evolution of a form from a lexical status to a grammatical status, or from a grammatical status to a more grammatical status (Kury?owicz [1965] 1976). However, several broader definitions exist, such as Lehmann?s (2024: 1) ?subjection of a linguistic construction or schema or of a linguistic operation to the rule of grammar?. Such definitional extensions affect a) the scope of this concept and b) the notion of unidirectionality (Pr?vost 2003, Haspelmath 2004, Norde 2009, Fischer 2013). The term ?grammaticalization? also refers to an analytical framework, or even a theory, built from observations of regularities of such processes. This framework expanded considerably in the latter half of the 20th century, notably through the work of Kury?owicz (1976), Benveniste (1968), and Giv?n (1979). Among the key publications are Lehmann ([1982] 1995), Hopper & Traugott (2003), Hopper (1991), Traugott & Heine (1991), Heine (1993, 1997), and Heine & Kuteva (2005, 2007). Around the turn of the 21st century, Construction Grammar developed rapidly. Much early research drew inspiration from Goldberg (1995), who defined a construction as a ?form-meaning pair? (1995: 4). Constructions are acquired individually because they are partly unpredictable, yet they are organized into a hierarchical network ? the constructicon ? that represents a speaker?s linguistic knowledge (Diessel 2023). In this network, lower-level constructions inherit properties from higher-level ones, and these vertical relations have been extensively studied. More elusive are the horizontal relations that link constructions at the same level, whether schematic or specific (e.g. He broke the vase / The vase broke). Diachronic Construction Grammar (a term first used by Ziegeler 2004; see No?l 2013) brings together work investigating how constructions evolve and how such changes are integrated into the constructicon (Bar?dal et al. 2015, Smirnova & Sommerer 2020 inter alia). Several authors have examined the relationship between grammaticalization theory and Diachronic Construction Grammar, but their conclusions diverge (No?l 2007, Trousdale 2012, Traugott & Trousdale 2013, Couss? et al. 2018, Hilpert 2018, Gildea & Bar?dal 2023). Combining the two approaches helps capture a broader range of diachronic phenomena, though it raises both terminological and conceptual challenges. For instance, grammaticalization theory assumes a continuum between two poles ? lexicon and grammar ? whereas Construction Grammar conceives of grammar as the entire inventory of constructions, without such a fundamental division (Trousdale 2015, Heine et al. 2016; see also Boye & Harder 2012). In grammaticalization theory, ?construction? does not mean ?form-meaning pair? but rather the combination of at least two linguistic signs in interaction with context (Heine 2002, Bybee 2003, Himmelmann 2004: 31, No?l 2007, Legallois & Patard 2017, Haspelmath 2023). One may also ask which approach better accounts for syntactic changes, especially those involving word order (Lehmann 1992, Hilpert 2021, Pr?vost 2025). As a result, several scholars have questioned attempts to subsume grammaticalization under Construction Grammar principles (B?rjars et al. 2015, Gregersen 2018, Heine et al. 2016, Hilpert 2021, M?lac 2024, 2025, Basile & Ziegeler in press, Heine et al. in press). Work on grammaticalization covers many linguistic areas, which led to numerous works adopting a typological approach (Heine & Kuteva 2002, Haspelmath 2019, Narrog & Heine 2018, Kuteva et al. 2019, Bisang & Malchukov 2020). Although Construction Grammar has increasingly been applied to languages beyond English (e.g. Croft 2001), it still tends to focus on specific constructions and their idiosyncratic features (Hilpert 2021). Given its theoretical orientation, Construction Grammar focuses less on typological generalizations and more on universals of linguistic usage and cognition. We invite proposals for papers or posters (500?800 words excluding references) which may be either case studies discussing fundamental theoretical issues or theoretical work based on innovative empirical analyses, regardless of language. Contributions to the conference are invited to address especially questions like the following: - What place should grammaticalization and Diachronic Construction Grammar occupy within a general theory of language change? Should we maintain them as distinct analytical frameworks, or seek to integrate them? - What exactly is the scope of grammaticalization and Diachronic Construction Grammar? - What predictive or explanatory power can be attributed to studies on grammaticalization and Diachronic Construction Grammar? - To what extent are grammaticalization and Diachronic Construction Grammar relevant for explaining linguistic diversity and typological patterns? - Which kinds of change, such as word order shifts or the development of discourse markers, are better accounted for by grammaticalization theory or Diachronic Construction Grammar? - Do temporality or gradualness distinguish grammaticalization from other types of language change? - Do frequency, analogy, and productivity have the same role for lexical and grammatical changes? - How does the constructicon evolve ? through the simple emergence or disappearance of constructions, through internal modification, or through reconfiguration of the network itself? Are these changes compatible with the key principles of grammaticalization theory? For full list of references, please see the event webpage. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From adam.rummens at cambridgescholars.com Mon Nov 24 04:07:31 2025 From: adam.rummens at cambridgescholars.com (adam.rummens at cambridgescholars.com) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 09:07:31 -0000 Subject: [Histling-l] (Ref. GR/797055) - Conference On Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics and Cultural Analytics 2026 Message-ID: <20251124090619.b63e30d15b205f87@mg.cambridgescholars.com> Dear Caitlin Wilson, I am writing in connection with your conference Conference On Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics and Cultural Analytics 2026 on 15 January 2026, and would like to invite you to submit a proposal to publish an Edited Collection of selected papers from the conference. 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No: 4333775; VAT No: 108280727 If you experience any difficulty reading this message, please send us an email to admin at cambridgescholars.com From stefanie.dipper at rub.de Fri Dec 5 05:57:32 2025 From: stefanie.dipper at rub.de (Stefanie Dipper) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2025 11:57:32 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Histling-l] New Release of the Reference Corpus of Middle High German (ReM) Message-ID: We are pleased to announce the new Version 2 of the Reference Corpus of Middle High German (ReM), which is available for download via the project website: https://linguistics.rub.de/rem The Reference Corpus of Middle High German (1050?1350) consists of more than two million tokens, providing a mostly complete collection of written records from Early Middle High German (1050?1200) as well as a careful selection of Middle High German texts from 1200 to 1350. The corpus was compiled in the context of a series of projects at the Universities of Cologne, Bonn, and Bochum, beginning in the mid-1980s. This new version of the corpus contains numerous corrections and improvements, both to the tokenization and to the linguistic annotations, as well as several new documents that were added to the corpus. In addition to CorA-XML, various new formats are available for download, including TEI XML and GraphML, which, among other things, is usable with a local ANNIS 4 instance. There is also a JSON-based format that contains all available annotations and provides easy access for data analysis scripts. The new version of the corpus can be accessed via ANNIS 4 at the following URL: https://newannis.linguistics.rub.de/rem The Reference Corpus of Middle High German is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). -- Prof. Dr. Stefanie Dipper (she/her) - Professur fuer Computerlinguistik Sprachwiss. Institut - Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum - 44780 Bochum - Germany Email: stefanie.dipper at rub.de - https://www.linguistics.rub.de/~dipper/ From Simon.Pickl at plus.ac.at Mon Dec 15 14:38:26 2025 From: Simon.Pickl at plus.ac.at (Pickl Simon) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:38:26 +0000 Subject: [Histling-l] HiSoN Conference Salzburg 2026 - Extension of abstract submission Message-ID: ABSTRACT SUBMISSON EXTENDED This is to announce that the abstract submission deadline for the HiSoN Conference 2026 in Salzburg has been extended to 7 January 2026. CALL FOR PAPERS The organising committee proudly announces that the 15th Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) Conference will take place at the University of Salzburg (Austria) from 28 - 30 September 2026. https://hison2026.com/ Confirmed plenary speakers are: Prof Joseph Salmons (University of Wisconsin, Madison, US) Prof Micha? G?uszkowski (Toru? University, Poland) Prof Sybille Gro?e (Heidelberg University, Germany) The 2026 conference theme is: Spoken and written discourse in historical sources. We welcome abstracts for two different formats - individual papers and thematic panels. All papers need to include historical as well as sociolinguistic aspects. For more details see the CfP on the conference webpage https://hison2026.com/call/. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Abstracts should be submitted through EasyAbs maintained by the LINGUIST List. Please ensure that the abstract is properly anonymised in order to allow for blind review. * The call opens October 2025. * Please submit your abstract by 7 January 2026. * Notification of acceptance by 15 March 2026. Organising committee Marina Albers, Stephan Elspa?, Laura Fischlhammer, Imke Mendoza, Tatsiana Nazaranka, Konstantin Niehaus, Simon Pickl, Bernhard P?ll & Erik Schleef Please contact us at Hison2026(at)plus.ac.at if you have any questions. 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