Call for papers: the 19th international conference on historical linguistics

[Ans van Kemenade]

The XIXth International Conference on Historical Linguistics

10-15 August 2009

Radboud University Nijmegen, Centre for Language Studies

 

Invited speakers 

Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge)

Michael Dunn (MPI Nijmegen)

Russell Gray (The University of Auckland)

Giuseppe Longobardi (Università degli studi di Trieste)

Pieter Muysken (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Shana Poplack (University of Ottawa)

Gillian Sankoff (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)

Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh)

John Whitman (Cornell University)

Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)

 

First circular and call for papers

Abstracts are invited  for papers of 30 minutes including discussion. Please
send in  an abstract of no more than 300 words, including your most
important literature references. The deadline for abstracts is 10 January
2009. The conference will host a number of workshops and thematic sessions,
which are listed below. Abstracts for these sessions are submitted, like
those for the general sessions, to a  separate abstract submission website.

The second circular will also contain more detailed about registration and
accommodation.

Note the conference e-mail address:  <mailto:ICHL19 at let.ru.nl>
ICHL19 at let.ru.nl. 

The conference URL is:  <http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/>
http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/

 Registration 

The registration fee will be Euro 200/100 for students until 1 May 2009

After 1 May 2009, the fee will be Euro 250/125

Practical details concerning registration (through a separate website
supporting credit card payment)  will be linked to the conference webpage
soonest. 

 Accommodation

We have made block bookings against reduced prices in the major hotels in
and around Nijmegen, in various price ranges. Accommodation can be booked
through our website. Details will be linked to this website soonest.

 

Social programme

The social programme will include two receptions, excursions on Wednesday
afternoon 12 August, the conference dinner on Thursday 13 August, and a
post-conference excursion on Saturday 15 August. Details will be posted
soonest.

 

Local committee: Ans van Kemenade, with Griet Coupé, Marion Elenbaas
(Leiden), Nynke de Haas, Haike Jacobs, Bettelou Los, Margit Rem and Angela
Terrill

 

Workshops and thematic sessions

The origin of non-canonical subject marking in Indo-European 

Convener: Jóhanna Barðdal (Bergen)  E-mail: johanna.barddal at uib.no 

 

So just what IS sound change anyway? Definitional, conceptual, and empirical
issues in the study of change in sound.

Convener: Brian Joseph (Ohio State). E-mail: Bjoseph at ling.ohio-state.edu

 

Spatial dynamics of language change

Conveners: Roeland van Hout (Nijmegen), Gertjan Postma (Meertensinstituut),
Giuseppe Longobardi (Trieste).  E-mail: Gertjanpostma at mac.com

 

Kinship terminologies:change and reconstruction

Conveners: Patrick McConvell (Australian National University) and Jeff Marck
(Cairo)

E-mail:  <mailto:Patrick.mcconvell at anu.edu.au> Patrick.mcconvell at anu.edu.au

 

Language and Migration

Convener: Rob Howell (Madison) E-mail: rbhowell at wisc.edu 

 

Grammaticalization in East Asia

Convener: Kazuha Watanabe (Cal State Fullerton) E-mail:
kwatanabe at Exchange.FULLERTON.EDU

 

Information structure in historical linguistics

Conveners: Kristine Eide (Oslo), Roland Hinterhölzl (HU Berlin), Ioanna
Sitaridou (Cambridge)

E-mail: k.g.eide at ilos.uio.no 

 

New perspectives on Baltic, Slavic and Balto-Slavic

Conveners: Imke Mendoza (Salzburg), Eugen Hill (München). E-mail:
eugen.hill at lrz.uni-muenchen.de 

 

Procedural meanings in diachrony

Conveners:  Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen (Manchester) & Jacqueline Visconti
(Genoa)

Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk 

 

Gender marking

Convener: Gunther de Vogelaer and Mark Janse(Ghent) E-mail:
<mailto:gunther.devogelaer at ugent.be> gunther.devogelaer at ugent.be 

 

Complementation In Diachrony

Conveners: Dr. Theodore Markopoulos (Uppsala) and Dr. Christina Sevdali
(Ulster)

E-mail: C.Sevdali at ulster.ac.uk 

 

Making the best of bad data in historical contact linguistics

Convener: Margot vd Berg  (Nijmegen). E-mail:  <mailto:M.v.d.Berg at let.ru.nl>
M.v.d.Berg at let.ru.nl

 

Diachrony in Clause Linkage

Convener: Ulrike Demske (Saarbrücken). E-mail: u.demske at mx.uni-saarland.de 

 

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