From pakendorf at eva.mpg.de Mon Dec 1 09:04:02 2008 From: pakendorf at eva.mpg.de (Brigitte Pakendorf) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 10:04:02 +0100 Subject: Post-doctoral position in ‘Khoisan ’ Documentation and Contact Linguistics Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings. One post-doctoral position is available in the interdisciplinary Max Planck Research Group on Comparative Population Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. The successful applicant will be expected to work on language contact in the Kalahari Basin with a particular focus on the underdocumented language ǂHoan; this will potentially involve close collaboration with a molecular anthropological project dealing with ‘Khoisan’ peoples. The project is planned as part of a broader collaborative interdisciplinary project on the ‘Kalahari Basin Area: A ‘Sprachbund’ on the verge of extinction’, for which a funding application is still pending; however, the ǂHoan contact project will be pursued regardless of the outcome of that application. Applicants are required to hold a PhD degree or at least to have submitted their PhD thesis at the time the project starts. Prior experience with linguistic fieldwork is imperative, familiarity with ‘Khoisan’ languages is highly desirable, and an interest in interdisciplinary research is important. The position will be available for an initial period of two years, with a possibility of extension for up to 12 more months. The Max Planck Research Group on Comparative Population Linguistics is an interdisciplinary group consisting of linguists, molecular anthropologists, and a social anthropologist devoted to the study of prehistoric language and population contact. Additional information can be found at our webpage: http://www.eva.mpg.de/cpl/ The group is tied in with the Department of Linguistics at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, which has a strong focus on functional-typological research as well as on fieldwork-based language description; see http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/. The ǂHoan contact project will be conducted in close collaboration with two other projects on ‘Khoisan’ languages carried out at the MPI-EVA; see http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/projects/taa/project and http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=131. Interested individuals should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, a sample of their writing, and the names and e-mail addresses of two referees to Brigitte Pakendorf by e-mail (pakendorf at eva.mpg.de ). In addition, they should arrange for the letters of reference to be sent directly to Brigitte Pakendorf. The deadline for applications is December 31st, 2008, and the position will ideally be filled soon after that; however, the exact starting date is negotiable. For further information, please contact Brigitte Pakendorf. The Max Planck Society is an equal opportunity employer. -- ************************************************************************ Dr. Dr. Brigitte Pakendorf (Ph.D. Molecular Anthropology, Ph.D. Linguistics) Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6 phone +49 (0) 341 35 50 308 D-04103 Leipzig fax +49 (0) 341 35 50 333 Germany e-mail pakendorf at eva.mpg.de http://www.eva.mpg.de/cpl/ ************************************************************************ _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From pakendorf at eva.mpg.de Thu Dec 11 11:26:04 2008 From: pakendorf at eva.mpg.de (Brigitte Pakendorf) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:26:04 +0100 Subject: post-doctoral position available Message-ID: My apologies for multiple postings *Post-doctoral position in Melanesian Contact Linguistics* One post-doctoral position is available in the interdisciplinary Max Planck Research Group on Comparative Population Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. The successful applicant will be expected to work on language contact in Melanesia (here understood as encompassing all areas where Non-Austronesian languages are spoken, including Indonesia). The choice of the location and linguistic details of the project are up to the candidate to decide, but the project should be fieldwork-based and ideally involve contact between Non-Austronesian and Austronesian languages. Projects including a sociolinguistic component are very welcome. The Max Planck Research Group on Comparative Population Linguistics is an interdisciplinary group consisting of linguists, molecular anthropologists, and a social anthropologist devoted to the study of prehistoric language and population contact. Additional information can be found at our webpage: http://www.eva.mpg.de/cpl/ The group is tied in with the Department of Linguistics at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, which has a strong focus on functional-typological research as well as on fieldwork-based language description; see http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/. Applicants are required to hold a PhD degree or at least to have submitted their PhD thesis at the time the project starts. Prior experience with linguistic fieldwork is imperative, familiarity with languages of Melanesia is highly desirable, and an interest in interdisciplinary research is important. The position will be available for an initial period of two years, with a possibility of extension. Interested individuals should send a letter of application, description of the proposed research project, curriculum vitae, a sample of their writing, and the names and e-mail addresses of two referees to Brigitte Pakendorf by e-mail (pakendorf at eva.mpg.de ). In addition, they should arrange for the letters of reference to be sent directly to Brigitte Pakendorf. The deadline for applications is January 10th, 2009, and the position will ideally be filled soon after that; however, the exact starting date is negotiable. For further information, please contact Brigitte Pakendorf. The Max Planck Society is an equal opportunity employer. -- ************************************************************************ Dr. Dr. Brigitte Pakendorf (Ph.D. Molecular Anthropology, Ph.D. Linguistics) Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6 phone +49 (0) 341 35 50 308 D-04103 Leipzig fax +49 (0) 341 35 50 333 Germany e-mail pakendorf at eva.mpg.de http://www.eva.mpg.de/cpl/ ************************************************************************ _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From brinton at interchange.ubc.ca Thu Dec 11 18:43:50 2008 From: brinton at interchange.ubc.ca (Laurel Brinton) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:43:50 -0800 Subject: Call for Papers - SHEL6 (Reminder) Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I would like to remind you about the upcoming deadline (January 7, 2009) for abstracts for the SHEL6 Conference. Further information can be found at the conference website: http:// ling.ucalgary.ca/banff2009/ We look forward to seeing you all next year in Banff! Laurel Brinton (on behalf of the FGLS/GLAC/SHEL organizing committee) Forum for Germanic Language Studies (FGLS 8) Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC 15) Studies in the History of the English Language (SHEL 6) Banff, Alberta, Canada April 30–May 3, 2009 The eighth conference of the Forum for Germanic Language Studies (FGLS), the fifteenth Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC), and the sixth conference on Studies in the History of the English Language (SHEL) will be held jointly in Banff, Alberta, Canada from April 30 to May 3, 2009. There have only been two joint meetings of these groups in previous years—FGLS/GLAC met in London, England in 2003, and GLAC/SHEL in Ann Arbor in 2004. This is the first time in history that the three groups are meeting together, and we are very pleased to be building on the great successes of the previous joint meetings. Please see below for further information on each society. Call for Papers Deadline: January 7, 2009 Faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars are invited to submit abstracts for 20-minute papers for presentation at FGLS, GLAC, and/or SHEL. Abstracts for FGLS and GLAC may be on any linguistic or philological aspect of any historical or modern Germanic language or dialect, including English (to the Early Modern period) and the extraterritorial varieties. Abstracts for SHEL may be on any linguistic or philological aspect of the history of English. Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts. Papers from the full range of linguistic and philological subfields, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, stylistics, metrics, language acquisition, contact, and change, as well as differing theoretical perspectives, are welcome. All abstracts will undergo anonymous review. Abstracts must be submitted electronically in PDF format as an email attachment to: banff09(at)ucalgary(dot)ca. Abstracts should be a maximum of one single-spaced page in length, and be written in a standard 12-point font. The page should be headed only by the title of the paper, and the abstract should contain no self-identification. The accompanying email should include the author's institutional affiliation, title of the paper, and conference affiliation (that is, FGLS, GLAC, and/or SHEL). Notification of acceptance will be sent out by February 15, 2009. Tips for writing a good abstract are provided by the Linguistic Society of America at: http://lsadc.org/info/abstract-models.cfm. FGLS 8 The Forum of Germanic Language Studies (FGLS) was founded in 1994 and is an informal group open to any scholar with an interest in Germanic linguistics. Most members are based in the British Isles and in many ways FGLS functions as the subject association of Germanic linguists in the UK. The inaugural meeting was held in Manchester under the name of the Forum for German Language Studies. At the 1996 meeting in York, the name was changed to reflect the Forum's broader focus. GLAC 15 The Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC) is the conference of the international Society for Germanic Linguistics (SGL), an organization serving the broad community of scholars teaching and researching in Germanic Linguistics and Philology. The conference welcomes papers encompassing the full range of subfields in Germanic linguistics and philology, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and language contact and change, and all Germanic languages and dialects, including Modern German, Dutch, Yiddish, the Scandinavian languages, Afrikaans, Pennsylvania German, English (to 1500), and Gothic, as well as texts and manuscripts in these languages. SHEL 6 Studies in the History of the English Language (SHEL) has become a biennial tradition, giving the field of Historical English Linguistics both focus and recognition in North America and providing the critical opportunity for scholars in the field to gather and share their research. SHEL follows in the tradition of the biennial International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL), traditionally hosted at research centres throughout Europe. SHEL welcomes papers from the full range of linguistic and philological subfields, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, stylistics, metrics, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, language acquisition, contact, and change, as well as differing theoretical and methodological perspectives. Conference Website: http://ling.ucalgary.ca/banff2009/ Conference Email: banff09(at)ucalgary(dot)ca Local Organizers (University of Calgary): Murray McGillivray; mmcgilli(at)ucalgary(dot)ca Robert Murray; rwmurray(at)ucalgary(dot)ca Amanda Pounder; apounder(at)ucalgary(dot)ca Co-organizers: FGLS: Nils Langer, University of Bristol; nils(dot)langer(at)bristol (dot)ac(dot)uk SHEL: Laurel Brinton, UBC, Vancouver; brinton(at)interchange(dot)ubc (dot)ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From jfleischer at access.unizh.ch Tue Dec 16 19:57:46 2008 From: jfleischer at access.unizh.ch (jfleischer at access.unizh.ch) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:57:46 +0100 Subject: Summer School Models of Language Variation and Change (Marburg University, 08/07-/08/21, 2009) In-Reply-To: <20080902151750.EF755DF3BE@amanita.mail.rice.edu> Message-ID: Announcement: Summer School Models of Language Variation and Change / Modelle von Sprachvariation und Sprachwandel (Marburg University, 08/07-/08/21, 2009) The Promotionskolleg für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften and the Institut für Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft of Marburg University organize a summer school devoted to Models of Language Variation and Change / Modelle von Sprachvariation und Sprachwandel that takes place August 7th - August 21st, 2009 (directed by Juerg Fleischer and Richard Wiese). The summer school is focused on problems of language change and language variation, especially their role in developing theoretical models. The summer school is addressed to doctoral students who are working on problems of language change and/or language variation on any linguistic subfield in any language(s). Teaching languages will be English and German. Participants are expected to take three from six courses and to present their dissertation project in one of them. To prepare for the summer school participants will be sent a reading list before the beginning. Participation in the courses and the presentation will be confirmed and certified with 8 ECTS points. The following courses will be held: - Paul Boersma (University of Amsterdam) / Silke Hamann (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf): Multi-level bidirectional connections - Damaris Nübling (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz): Zwischen konservativ und innovativ: Dialektmorphologie - Guido Seiler (University of Manchester): Syntax in Space - Sten Vikner (University of Aarhus): Generative Models of Syntactic Variation - Horst Simon (King’s College London): Historical Pragmatics - Walter Bisang (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz): Linguistic typology and grammaticalization – the perspective of language contact Doctoral students interested in participating are invited to apply by sending a short description of their dissertation project and a letter detailing their motivation until February 28th, 2009. The number of participant is limited to 40. Participation fee is EUR 250. For further information: www.summerschool-marburg.de and info at summerschool-marburg.de _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From johanna.barddal at uib.no Tue Dec 16 21:56:25 2008 From: johanna.barddal at uib.no (J=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C3=B3hanna_Bar=C3=B0dal?=) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:56:25 +0100 Subject: Extended deadline: Workshop on Reconstructing Alignment Systems Message-ID: Deadline extended until January 20th! x.x.x.x.x.x CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop: Reconstructing Alignment Systems 14-15 May, 2009 University of Bergen, Norway Invited Speakers: Alice Harris (Stony Brook University) Geoffrey Haig (University of Kiel) Abstract Submission Deadline: 20 January, 2009 Workshop URL: http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP/Workshop3.htm The aim of this workshop is to gather researchers working on alignment systems in a historical perspective, in order to brainstorm on how alignment systems can be reconstructed for earlier stages of a language or a language family. We welcome abstracts on well-studied language families like Indo-European, abstracts on oral languages without a recorded history, and everything in between, aiming to highlight different kinds of reconstruction problems. We also welcome papers on changes in alignment systems, papers addressing the issue of how different theoretical frameworks can contribute to reconstruction, as well as papers concerned with the more general implications of alignment changes for diachronic typology. Please send a one page abstract in pdf format to Thomas Smitherman(Thomas.Smitherman at uib.no) no later than January 20th. Notification of acceptance will be sent out soon thereafter. The workshop is hosted by the University of Bergen and the research team of the project, Indo-European Case and Argument Structure from a Typological Perspective (IECASTP): http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP Location: University of Bergen Vilvite Bergen Vitensenter AS (Auditorium) Thormøhlengate 51 5006 Bergen x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x -- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Jóhanna Barðdal Research Associate Professor Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen P.O. box 7805 NO-5020 Bergen Norway johanna.barddal at uib.no Phone +47-55582438 (work) Phone +47-55201117 (home) Fax +47-55589660 (work) http://www.hf.uib.no/i/lili/SLF/ans/barddal _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From pakendorf at eva.mpg.de Mon Dec 1 09:04:02 2008 From: pakendorf at eva.mpg.de (Brigitte Pakendorf) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 10:04:02 +0100 Subject: Post-doctoral position in ‘Khoisan ’ Documentation and Contact Linguistics Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings. One post-doctoral position is available in the interdisciplinary Max Planck Research Group on Comparative Population Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. The successful applicant will be expected to work on language contact in the Kalahari Basin with a particular focus on the underdocumented language ?Hoan; this will potentially involve close collaboration with a molecular anthropological project dealing with ?Khoisan? peoples. The project is planned as part of a broader collaborative interdisciplinary project on the ?Kalahari Basin Area: A ?Sprachbund? on the verge of extinction?, for which a funding application is still pending; however, the ?Hoan contact project will be pursued regardless of the outcome of that application. Applicants are required to hold a PhD degree or at least to have submitted their PhD thesis at the time the project starts. Prior experience with linguistic fieldwork is imperative, familiarity with ?Khoisan? languages is highly desirable, and an interest in interdisciplinary research is important. The position will be available for an initial period of two years, with a possibility of extension for up to 12 more months. The Max Planck Research Group on Comparative Population Linguistics is an interdisciplinary group consisting of linguists, molecular anthropologists, and a social anthropologist devoted to the study of prehistoric language and population contact. Additional information can be found at our webpage: http://www.eva.mpg.de/cpl/ The group is tied in with the Department of Linguistics at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, which has a strong focus on functional-typological research as well as on fieldwork-based language description; see http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/. The ?Hoan contact project will be conducted in close collaboration with two other projects on ?Khoisan? languages carried out at the MPI-EVA; see http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/projects/taa/project and http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=131. Interested individuals should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, a sample of their writing, and the names and e-mail addresses of two referees to Brigitte Pakendorf by e-mail (pakendorf at eva.mpg.de ). In addition, they should arrange for the letters of reference to be sent directly to Brigitte Pakendorf. The deadline for applications is December 31st, 2008, and the position will ideally be filled soon after that; however, the exact starting date is negotiable. For further information, please contact Brigitte Pakendorf. The Max Planck Society is an equal opportunity employer. -- ************************************************************************ Dr. Dr. Brigitte Pakendorf (Ph.D. Molecular Anthropology, Ph.D. Linguistics) Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6 phone +49 (0) 341 35 50 308 D-04103 Leipzig fax +49 (0) 341 35 50 333 Germany e-mail pakendorf at eva.mpg.de http://www.eva.mpg.de/cpl/ ************************************************************************ _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From pakendorf at eva.mpg.de Thu Dec 11 11:26:04 2008 From: pakendorf at eva.mpg.de (Brigitte Pakendorf) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:26:04 +0100 Subject: post-doctoral position available Message-ID: My apologies for multiple postings *Post-doctoral position in Melanesian Contact Linguistics* One post-doctoral position is available in the interdisciplinary Max Planck Research Group on Comparative Population Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. The successful applicant will be expected to work on language contact in Melanesia (here understood as encompassing all areas where Non-Austronesian languages are spoken, including Indonesia). The choice of the location and linguistic details of the project are up to the candidate to decide, but the project should be fieldwork-based and ideally involve contact between Non-Austronesian and Austronesian languages. Projects including a sociolinguistic component are very welcome. The Max Planck Research Group on Comparative Population Linguistics is an interdisciplinary group consisting of linguists, molecular anthropologists, and a social anthropologist devoted to the study of prehistoric language and population contact. Additional information can be found at our webpage: http://www.eva.mpg.de/cpl/ The group is tied in with the Department of Linguistics at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, which has a strong focus on functional-typological research as well as on fieldwork-based language description; see http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/. Applicants are required to hold a PhD degree or at least to have submitted their PhD thesis at the time the project starts. Prior experience with linguistic fieldwork is imperative, familiarity with languages of Melanesia is highly desirable, and an interest in interdisciplinary research is important. The position will be available for an initial period of two years, with a possibility of extension. Interested individuals should send a letter of application, description of the proposed research project, curriculum vitae, a sample of their writing, and the names and e-mail addresses of two referees to Brigitte Pakendorf by e-mail (pakendorf at eva.mpg.de ). In addition, they should arrange for the letters of reference to be sent directly to Brigitte Pakendorf. The deadline for applications is January 10th, 2009, and the position will ideally be filled soon after that; however, the exact starting date is negotiable. For further information, please contact Brigitte Pakendorf. The Max Planck Society is an equal opportunity employer. -- ************************************************************************ Dr. Dr. Brigitte Pakendorf (Ph.D. Molecular Anthropology, Ph.D. Linguistics) Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6 phone +49 (0) 341 35 50 308 D-04103 Leipzig fax +49 (0) 341 35 50 333 Germany e-mail pakendorf at eva.mpg.de http://www.eva.mpg.de/cpl/ ************************************************************************ _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From brinton at interchange.ubc.ca Thu Dec 11 18:43:50 2008 From: brinton at interchange.ubc.ca (Laurel Brinton) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:43:50 -0800 Subject: Call for Papers - SHEL6 (Reminder) Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I would like to remind you about the upcoming deadline (January 7, 2009) for abstracts for the SHEL6 Conference. Further information can be found at the conference website: http:// ling.ucalgary.ca/banff2009/ We look forward to seeing you all next year in Banff! Laurel Brinton (on behalf of the FGLS/GLAC/SHEL organizing committee) Forum for Germanic Language Studies (FGLS 8) Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC 15) Studies in the History of the English Language (SHEL 6) Banff, Alberta, Canada April 30?May 3, 2009 The eighth conference of the Forum for Germanic Language Studies (FGLS), the fifteenth Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC), and the sixth conference on Studies in the History of the English Language (SHEL) will be held jointly in Banff, Alberta, Canada from April 30 to May 3, 2009. There have only been two joint meetings of these groups in previous years?FGLS/GLAC met in London, England in 2003, and GLAC/SHEL in Ann Arbor in 2004. This is the first time in history that the three groups are meeting together, and we are very pleased to be building on the great successes of the previous joint meetings. Please see below for further information on each society. Call for Papers Deadline: January 7, 2009 Faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars are invited to submit abstracts for 20-minute papers for presentation at FGLS, GLAC, and/or SHEL. Abstracts for FGLS and GLAC may be on any linguistic or philological aspect of any historical or modern Germanic language or dialect, including English (to the Early Modern period) and the extraterritorial varieties. Abstracts for SHEL may be on any linguistic or philological aspect of the history of English. Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts. Papers from the full range of linguistic and philological subfields, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, stylistics, metrics, language acquisition, contact, and change, as well as differing theoretical perspectives, are welcome. All abstracts will undergo anonymous review. Abstracts must be submitted electronically in PDF format as an email attachment to: banff09(at)ucalgary(dot)ca. Abstracts should be a maximum of one single-spaced page in length, and be written in a standard 12-point font. The page should be headed only by the title of the paper, and the abstract should contain no self-identification. The accompanying email should include the author's institutional affiliation, title of the paper, and conference affiliation (that is, FGLS, GLAC, and/or SHEL). Notification of acceptance will be sent out by February 15, 2009. Tips for writing a good abstract are provided by the Linguistic Society of America at: http://lsadc.org/info/abstract-models.cfm. FGLS 8 The Forum of Germanic Language Studies (FGLS) was founded in 1994 and is an informal group open to any scholar with an interest in Germanic linguistics. Most members are based in the British Isles and in many ways FGLS functions as the subject association of Germanic linguists in the UK. The inaugural meeting was held in Manchester under the name of the Forum for German Language Studies. At the 1996 meeting in York, the name was changed to reflect the Forum's broader focus. GLAC 15 The Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC) is the conference of the international Society for Germanic Linguistics (SGL), an organization serving the broad community of scholars teaching and researching in Germanic Linguistics and Philology. The conference welcomes papers encompassing the full range of subfields in Germanic linguistics and philology, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and language contact and change, and all Germanic languages and dialects, including Modern German, Dutch, Yiddish, the Scandinavian languages, Afrikaans, Pennsylvania German, English (to 1500), and Gothic, as well as texts and manuscripts in these languages. SHEL 6 Studies in the History of the English Language (SHEL) has become a biennial tradition, giving the field of Historical English Linguistics both focus and recognition in North America and providing the critical opportunity for scholars in the field to gather and share their research. SHEL follows in the tradition of the biennial International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL), traditionally hosted at research centres throughout Europe. SHEL welcomes papers from the full range of linguistic and philological subfields, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, stylistics, metrics, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, language acquisition, contact, and change, as well as differing theoretical and methodological perspectives. Conference Website: http://ling.ucalgary.ca/banff2009/ Conference Email: banff09(at)ucalgary(dot)ca Local Organizers (University of Calgary): Murray McGillivray; mmcgilli(at)ucalgary(dot)ca Robert Murray; rwmurray(at)ucalgary(dot)ca Amanda Pounder; apounder(at)ucalgary(dot)ca Co-organizers: FGLS: Nils Langer, University of Bristol; nils(dot)langer(at)bristol (dot)ac(dot)uk SHEL: Laurel Brinton, UBC, Vancouver; brinton(at)interchange(dot)ubc (dot)ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From jfleischer at access.unizh.ch Tue Dec 16 19:57:46 2008 From: jfleischer at access.unizh.ch (jfleischer at access.unizh.ch) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:57:46 +0100 Subject: Summer School Models of Language Variation and Change (Marburg University, 08/07-/08/21, 2009) In-Reply-To: <20080902151750.EF755DF3BE@amanita.mail.rice.edu> Message-ID: Announcement: Summer School Models of Language Variation and Change / Modelle von Sprachvariation und Sprachwandel (Marburg University, 08/07-/08/21, 2009) The Promotionskolleg f?r Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften and the Institut f?r Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft of Marburg University organize a summer school devoted to Models of Language Variation and Change / Modelle von Sprachvariation und Sprachwandel that takes place August 7th - August 21st, 2009 (directed by Juerg Fleischer and Richard Wiese). The summer school is focused on problems of language change and language variation, especially their role in developing theoretical models. The summer school is addressed to doctoral students who are working on problems of language change and/or language variation on any linguistic subfield in any language(s). Teaching languages will be English and German. Participants are expected to take three from six courses and to present their dissertation project in one of them. To prepare for the summer school participants will be sent a reading list before the beginning. Participation in the courses and the presentation will be confirmed and certified with 8 ECTS points. The following courses will be held: - Paul Boersma (University of Amsterdam) / Silke Hamann (Heinrich-Heine-Universit?t D?sseldorf): Multi-level bidirectional connections - Damaris N?bling (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universit?t Mainz): Zwischen konservativ und innovativ: Dialektmorphologie - Guido Seiler (University of Manchester): Syntax in Space - Sten Vikner (University of Aarhus): Generative Models of Syntactic Variation - Horst Simon (King?s College London): Historical Pragmatics - Walter Bisang (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universit?t Mainz): Linguistic typology and grammaticalization ? the perspective of language contact Doctoral students interested in participating are invited to apply by sending a short description of their dissertation project and a letter detailing their motivation until February 28th, 2009. The number of participant is limited to 40. Participation fee is EUR 250. For further information: www.summerschool-marburg.de and info at summerschool-marburg.de _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From johanna.barddal at uib.no Tue Dec 16 21:56:25 2008 From: johanna.barddal at uib.no (J=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C3=B3hanna_Bar=C3=B0dal?=) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:56:25 +0100 Subject: Extended deadline: Workshop on Reconstructing Alignment Systems Message-ID: Deadline extended until January 20th! x.x.x.x.x.x CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop: Reconstructing Alignment Systems 14-15 May, 2009 University of Bergen, Norway Invited Speakers: Alice Harris (Stony Brook University) Geoffrey Haig (University of Kiel) Abstract Submission Deadline: 20 January, 2009 Workshop URL: http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP/Workshop3.htm The aim of this workshop is to gather researchers working on alignment systems in a historical perspective, in order to brainstorm on how alignment systems can be reconstructed for earlier stages of a language or a language family. We welcome abstracts on well-studied language families like Indo-European, abstracts on oral languages without a recorded history, and everything in between, aiming to highlight different kinds of reconstruction problems. We also welcome papers on changes in alignment systems, papers addressing the issue of how different theoretical frameworks can contribute to reconstruction, as well as papers concerned with the more general implications of alignment changes for diachronic typology. Please send a one page abstract in pdf format to Thomas Smitherman(Thomas.Smitherman at uib.no) no later than January 20th. Notification of acceptance will be sent out soon thereafter. The workshop is hosted by the University of Bergen and the research team of the project, Indo-European Case and Argument Structure from a Typological Perspective (IECASTP): http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP Location: University of Bergen Vilvite Bergen Vitensenter AS (Auditorium) Thorm?hlengate 51 5006 Bergen x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x -- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ J?hanna Bar?dal Research Associate Professor Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen P.O. box 7805 NO-5020 Bergen Norway johanna.barddal at uib.no Phone +47-55582438 (work) Phone +47-55201117 (home) Fax +47-55589660 (work) http://www.hf.uib.no/i/lili/SLF/ans/barddal _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l