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: