[Mendele] MENDELE Personal Notices and Announcements: Conference in Regensburg--call for papers

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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009  [sic--untershames iz shuldik] 17:19:32 +0200
From: Sandra Birzer <sandra.birzer at sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de>
Subject: the international workshop `Yiddish language structures to be 
held 30 November - 1 December-- Second Call for Papers

The Slavonic Department of the University of Regensburg (Bjrn Hansen and 
Sandra Birzer) invite abstracts for the international workshop
`Yiddish language structures to be held 30 November - 1 December 2009 in 
Regensburg/Germany.

The main focus is supposed to be on structural aspects of the description 
of the Yiddish language system which includes both theoretical and 
empirical questions. The idea is to bring together specialists from the 
field of Yiddish linguistics and General Linguists working on language 
change and language contact.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- phonology, lexicology, morphology and syntax of Yiddish
- contact-induced grammaticalization
- borrowing asymmetries
- Corpus linguistic research on Yiddish

The following scholars have been asked to deliver a keynote talk at the
workshop:
Steffen Krogh (University of Aarhus) - confirmed
Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp) - confirmed
Yaron Matras (University of Manchester) - confirmed
Gertrud Reershemius (Aston University) - confirmed

The workshop is also meant to be a forum to discuss the new project of an 
on-line `Corpus of Modern Yiddish (CMY) which aims at compiling a balanced 
text corpus of Modern Yiddish of about 10 million words. The CMY is a 
joint project of scholars from Regensburg and Moscow.

The conference languages will be English, Yiddish and German.

Conference homepage:
http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_IV/Slavistik/YLS/

Abstract specifications:
Maximum length:  500 words or 1 single-spaced page
Abstracts must be anonymous.  Do not put your name or other identifying 
information on the abstract. Please send an extra file specifying the 
authors / authors name and the title of the abstract.

Please send your abstract to this email address:
Yiddish.Structures at sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de

Deadline for the submission of abstracts is 20 July 2009. Notification 
about the acceptance or rejection of submitted abstracts will be given by 
30 September 2009.

Conference fee
The conference fee is Euro 75 for regular participants. Regular 
participants taking advantage of the early bird registration until 31 
October 2009 pay Euro 50. The conference fee for student participants is 
Euro 20.
Participants must pay their own travel and accommodation costs.

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Dr. Sandra Birzer
Institut fr Slavistik
Universitt Regensburg
93040 Regensburg
Germany
Tel. +49 941 943-3399
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