From dammel at uni-mainz.de Mon Aug 10 15:12:06 2009 From: dammel at uni-mainz.de (Dammel, Antje) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:12:06 +0200 Subject: Call: Workshop Grammaticalization in German Message-ID: Workshop: Grammaticalization in German – in the European context (Deutscher Germanistentag 2010) 19-23 September 2010, Freiburg/Germany Workshop URL: http://www.germanistenverband.de/hochschule/tagungen/deutscher-germanistentag.php Organizers: Renata Szczepaniak, Mirjam Schmuck, Antje Dammel (University of Mainz) Linguistic Field(s): language change, language contact, contrastive grammar Conference language: German Description: In the last decades, grammaticalization research has given rise to several functional as well as formal approaches to language change focusing on semantics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis, and syntax. The aim of the section held at the Deutscher Germanistentag 2010 in Freiburg/Germany is to adopt or, if necessary, to refine the existing approaches and to apply them also from a contrastive perspective to grammaticalization processes in German. Going along with the main topic of the meeting "German language and literature in the European context", this workshop is also attempting to determine the influence of language contact and standardization processes on language change, especially of those relating to German. The workshop will be held in German. Scholarships: In order to support young scholars to participate in the conference, the Deutscher Germanistenverband (DGV) offers 20 scholarships in amount of 500 euro each (membership in the DGV is required, for the application form see http://www.germanistenverband.de/hochschule/mitglied-werden/anmeldung.php). We invite young researchers to send their abstract and a short, informal application to: Geschäftsstelle der Gesellschaft für Hochschulgermanistik im Deutschen Germanistenverband Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Br. Platz der Universität 3 D-79098 Freiburg im Breisgau e-mail: buerohochschule at germanistenverband.de Topics to be discussed may include: relativity and normativity of findings from the German-language studies, speech and writing, doubtful cases in present-day German, grammaticalization paths, the role of language contact/ grammaticalization and standardization Call for papers: We invite you to submit an abstract for a 20 minutes talk that should not exceed one page (including references) to: Prof. Dr. Renata Szczepaniak, rszczepa at uni-mainz.de Deadline of submission: September 7, 2009 Notification of acceptance: October 31, 2009 _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From c.kay at englang.arts.gla.ac.uk Mon Aug 17 15:59:26 2009 From: c.kay at englang.arts.gla.ac.uk (Christian Kay ) Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:59:26 +0100 Subject: Historical Thesaurus of the OED Message-ID: 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 david.denison at manchester.ac.uk Mon Aug 17 21:22:43 2009 From: david.denison at manchester.ac.uk (David Denison) Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:22:43 +0100 Subject: Middle English Manuscripts conference Message-ID: To celebrate the completion of the Middle English Manuscripts digitisation project at the John Rylands University Library in Manchester, and to formally launch the resource, there will be a one-day conference at the Rylands on 18 Sept 2009, with a public lecture the evening before. We hope you will be able to attend. For further information about the conference and the project as a whole, please visit the project blog at the address below. http://mmems.wordpress.com/ The conference programme and a registration form are available online. David Denison -- <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> David Denison Linguistics and English Language University of Manchester | Manchester M13 9PL | U.K. +44 (0)161-275 3154 (phone) +44 (0)161-275 3031 (fax) david.denison at manchester.ac.uk http://tinyurl.com/DD-UMan _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l