From Nino.Amiridze at let.uu.nl Mon Jan 5 20:26:55 2009 From: Nino.Amiridze at let.uu.nl (Amiridze, Nino) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 21:26:55 +0100 Subject: Second Call -- Language Contact and Change: Multiple and Bimodal Bilingual Minorities, Tartu 2009 Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple posting] Second Call Language Contact and Change: Multiple and Bimodal Bilingual Minorities Date: May 28, 2009 Location: Tartu, Estonia Workshop at the International Conference on Minority Languages XII (ICML 2009) Website: http://www.dipfilmod-suf.unifi.it/CMpro-v-p-236.html Contact: tartulcc at gmail.com The workshop aims at exploring the language contact and language change phenomena that characterize multiple linguistic minorities. It focuses on but is not confined to signed, Uralic and Caucasian languages. On the one hand, we intend to explore the situation of bimodal bilingualism. Data from changes in multi-modal bilingual contexts can lead to new insights into bilingualism, the typology and structure of languages, and language change and contact in general. Research into bimodal bilingualism can draw upon several methods and approaches developed for studying the bilingualism of other minority languages, and vice versa. On the other hand, we know that it is difficult to reach the bilingual individuals and communities that are deaf and belong to several linguistic minorities. Therefore, we approach the bimodal target via individual studies on minority languages. More specifically, we concentrate on the issue of language change in contact in the context of a typologically wide range of minority languages. We are looking for answers to questions such as the following: - How do deaf children of (hearing) parents belonging to linguistic minorities (e.g., Nganasan) communicate with the Deaf communities in their country and with their own parents? - How does their language change? - How can we test the change in the structure of the languages in contact in a uniform way? - What are the factors that influence the developments? - Can we work towards a typology? Invited keynote speakers: Csilla Bartha (hearing) (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest): The situation of the Deaf and national minorities in Hungary; Östen Dahl (hearing) (Stockholm University): Contact induced changes in tense and aspect systems; Tatiana Davidenko (Deaf) (Moscow Centre for Deaf Studies and Bilingual Education): Sign Language Diversity in Post-Soviet Countries; Anna Komarova (hearing) (Moscow Centre for Deaf Studies and Bilingual Education): Development of Bilingual Education of the Deaf in Post-Soviet Countries; Gaurav Mathur (Deaf) (Gallaudet University): The relationship between agreement and finiteness in sign languages; Johanna Mesch (Deaf) (Stockholm University): Variations in tactile signing - the case of one-handed conversation; Helle Metslang (hearing) (University of Tartu): Changes in Finnish and Estonian tense and aspect; Christian Rathmann (Deaf) (Hamburg University): Minority Communities within German Deaf Community; Don Stilo (hearing) (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig): Introduction to an Atlas of the Araxes-Iran Linguistic Area. Check for updates, our interdisciplinary areas, and more research questions at http://www.dipfilmod-suf.unifi.it/CMpro-v-p-236.html Submission (deadline January 15, 2009, notification January 31, 2009). Abstracts (in English, maximum 2 pages, including data and references) have to be submitted electronically as portable document format (.pdf) or Microsoft Word (.doc) files via the EasyChair conference management system (https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=lcc09). If you do not have an EasyChair account, click on the button "I have no EasyChair Account" on that page and follow the instructions. When you receive a password, you can enter the site and upload your abstract. Organizers: Nino Amiridze, Utrecht University (The Netherlands) Östen Dahl, University of Stockholm (Sweden) Anne Tamm, University of Florence (Italy) and Institute for the Estonian Language (Estonia) Manana Topadze, University of Pavia (Italy) Inge Zwitserlood, Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands) -------------- 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 ilja.serzants at uib.no Tue Jan 6 09:59:46 2009 From: ilja.serzants at uib.no (Ilja Serzants) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:59:46 +0100 Subject: LAST CALL FOR PAPERS. Workshop: The origin of non-canonical subject marking in Indo-European Message-ID: LAST CALL FOR PAPERS WORKSHOP: THE ORIGIN OF NON-CANONICAL SUBJECT MARKING IN INDO-EUROPEAN The research team of the project "Indo-European Case and Argument Structure from a Typological Perspective" (IECASTP) (http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP[1]) is organizing a workshop at the XIXth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (10-15 August 2009, Nijmegen, http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/[2]), devoted on the origin of non-canonical subject marking in Indo-European. The URL of the workshop is: http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP/Workshop5.htm[3] Invited speaker: Leonid Kulikov (University of Leiden) Please send a 300-word abstract in pdf format to Ilja Serzants (Ilja.Serzants at uib.no) no later than January 10th. Notification of acceptance will be sent out no later than January 25th. The abstract also has to be submitted through the main conference website at the same time. DESCRIPTION Several of the Modern Indo-European languages that have maintained morphological case exhibit structures where the subject(-like) argument is not canonically case marked. These are found amongst the Modern Germanic languages, Modern Russian, the Modern Baltic languages and the Modern Indo-Aryan languages, to mention some. It is traditionally assumed in the literature that these have developed from objects to subjects (see, for instance, Hewson and Bubenik 2006), hence the case marking. Recently, however, it has been argued for Germanic that oblique subjects in the modern languages were syntactic subjects already in Old Germanic (Eythórsson and Barðdal 2005). This raises the question whether these non-canonically case-marked subject(-like) arguments were objects in Proto-Germanic or Proto-Indo-European, or whether they may have been syntactic subjects all along, given an assumption of the alignment system in Proto-Indo-European being a Fluid-S system (cf. Barðdal and Eythórsson 2008). It is, moreover, possible that the case marking patterns of different predicate types have different origins in Indo-European. The aim of this workshop is therefore to gather researchers who work on case marking in Indo-European, and case marking in general, to a forum where the more general topic of the origin of this non-canonical case marking can be discussed. By doing that, we hope to shed light on this important issue within case marking and alignment, historical linguistics, and Indo-European studies. LOCATION: Radboud University Nijmegen, Centre for Language Studies/Language in Time and Space Please check the website of the host conference for issues like registration, conference fee, social program, etc. http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/[4]) -- Ilja Serzants PhD Research Student Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen P.O. box 7805 NO-5020 Bergen Norway -------------- next part -------------- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS WORKSHOP: THE ORIGIN OF NON-CANONICAL SUBJECT MARKING IN INDO-EUROPEAN The research team of the project ?Indo-European Case and Argument Structure from a Typological Perspective? (IECASTP) (http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP[1]) is organizing a workshop at the XIXth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (10-15 August 2009, Nijmegen, http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/[2]), devoted on the origin of non-canonical subject marking in Indo-European. The URL of the workshop is: http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP/Workshop5.htm[3] Invited speaker: Leonid Kulikov (University of Leiden) Please send a 300-word abstract in pdf format to Ilja Serzants (Ilja.Serzants at uib.no) no later than January 10th. Notification of acceptance will be sent out no later than January 25th. The abstract also has to be submitted through the main conference website at the same time. DESCRIPTION Several of the Modern Indo-European languages that have maintained morphological case exhibit structures where the subject(-like) argument is not canonically case marked. These are found amongst the Modern Germanic languages, Modern Russian, the Modern Baltic languages and the Modern Indo-Aryan languages, to mention some. It is traditionally assumed in the literature that these have developed from objects to subjects (see, for instance, Hewson and Bubenik 2006), hence the case marking. Recently, however, it has been argued for Germanic that oblique subjects in the modern languages were syntactic subjects already in Old Germanic (Eythórsson and Barðdal 2005). This raises the question whether these non-canonically case-marked subject(-like) arguments were objects in Proto-Germanic or Proto-Indo-European, or whether they may have been syntactic subjects all along, given an assumption of the alignment system in Proto-Indo-European being a Fluid-S system (cf. Barðdal and Eythórsson 2008). It is, moreover, possible that the case marking patterns of different predicate types have different origins in Indo-European. The aim of this workshop is therefore to gather researchers who work on case marking in Indo-European, and case marking in general, to a forum where the more general topic of the origin of this non-canonical case marking can be discussed. By doing that, we hope to shed light on this important issue within case marking and alignment, historical linguistics, and Indo-European studies. LOCATION: Radboud University Nijmegen, Centre for Language Studies/Language in Time and Space Please check the website of the host conference for issues like registration, conference fee, social program, etc. http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/[4]) -- Ilja Serzants PhD Research Student Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen P.O. box 7805 NO-5020 Bergen Norway Links: ------ [1] http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP [2] http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/ [3] http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP/Workshop5.htm [4] http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS WORKSHOP: THE ORIGIN OF NON-CANONICAL SUBJECT MARKING IN INDO-EUROPEAN The research team of the project ?Indo-European Case and Argument Structure from a Typological Perspective? (IECASTP) (http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP) is organizing a workshop at the XIXth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (10-15 August 2009, Nijmegen, http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/), devoted on the origin of non-canonical subject marking in Indo-European. The URL of the workshop is: http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP/Workshop5.htm Invited speaker: Leonid Kulikov (University of Leiden) Please send a 300-word abstract in pdf format to Ilja Serzants (Ilja.Serzants at uib.no) no later than January 10th. Notification of acceptance will be sent out no later than January 25th. The abstract also has to be submitted through the main conference website at the same time. DESCRIPTION Several of the Modern Indo-European languages that have maintained morphological case exhibit structures where the subject(-like) argument is not canonically case marked. These are found amongst the Modern Germanic languages, Modern Russian, the Modern Baltic languages and the Modern Indo-Aryan languages, to mention some. It is traditionally assumed in the literature that these have developed from objects to subjects (see, for instance, Hewson and Bubenik 2006), hence the case marking. Recently, however, it has been argued for Germanic that oblique subjects in the modern languages were syntactic subjects already in Old Germanic (Eythórsson and Barðdal 2005). This raises the question whether these non-canonically case-marked subject(-like) arguments were objects in Proto-Germanic or Proto-Indo-European, or whether they may have been syntactic subjects all along, given an assumption of the alignment system in Proto-Indo-European being a Fluid-S system (cf. Barðdal and Eythórsson 2008). It is, moreover, possible that the case marking patterns of different predicate types have different origins in Indo-European. The aim of this workshop is therefore to gather researchers who work on case marking in Indo-European, and case marking in general, to a forum where the more general topic of the origin of this non-canonical case marking can be discussed. By doing that, we hope to shed light on this important issue within case marking and alignment, historical linguistics, and Indo-European studies. LOCATION: Radboud University Nijmegen, Centre for Language Studies/Language in Time and Space Please check the website of the host conference for issues like registration, conference fee, social program, etc. http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/) -- Ilja Serzants PhD Research Student Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen P.O. box 7805 NO-5020 Bergen Norway -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Semantically, they are largely similar to generic speech verbs, such as say and tell in English, with which they share the feature of reference to an utterance. Functionally, however, they differ from the latter in being conventionalized in relation to reported discourse. That is, either they are not used in other contexts at all or they lack (fully or partially) the feature of reference to an utterance when no representation of reported discourse is adjacent. Consider, for instance, _be like_ in English in _And he’s like: “That’s great!”_. Following Güldemann (2008), the quote frame based on a quotative marker or/and a speech verb is called a quotative index. Güldemann (2008) also provides a detailed classification of quotative markers. Thus, syntactically, quotative markers can be either predicative or nonpredicative elements. Morphosyntactically, predicative quotative markers may behave as regular verbs and are then classified as quotative verbs. Those predicative quotative markers that do not fully qualify for the status of verb in a given language are referred to as quotative predicators. Nonpredicative quotative markers are often referred to as quotative complementizers, especially when they are also used for purposes of clause combining. Historically, quotative markers may derive from a large number of sources, such as generic speech verbs, generic verbs of equation, inchoativity, action, and motion, markers of similarity and manner, markers of focus, presentation and identification. Somewhat surprisingly, according to Güldemann (2008:295), at least in African languages, generic speech verbs appear to be “far less important” as sources of quotative markers than is usually assumed in the literature. At the same time, it is remarkable that quotative markers of various nonpredicative origins often tend to gradually acquire verbal features up to becoming full-fledged verbal lexemes through their conventionalized use as core elements of quotative indexes. In many African languages, quotative markers are also regularly employed for purposes of clause combining and extended to constructions expressing intention and various kinds of modal meanings. The proposed workshop is intended to bring together scholars interested in the origins and use of quotative markers in individual languages, language families or linguistic areas from any part of the world. Particularly welcome are papers based on data from spontaneous and spoken language use and data from less documented languages. Authors are also encouraged to situate their findings in a broader cross-linguistic perspective, both as regards the known sources of quotative markers as well as their typical secondary extensions to contexts not involving instances of reported discourse in the strict sense. References: Güldemann, Tom. 2008. Quotative indexes in African languages: A synchronic and diachronic survey. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 34) SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Abstracts in English are invited for 30 minute (20+10) presentations. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (exclusive of references) and should state research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. The abstract should not mention the presenter(s) nor their affiliations or addresses. Abstracts are preferably in DOC or RTF format; if your abstract contains special symbols, please include a PDF version as well. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2009. Please submit your abstract to dmitry.idiatov at ua.ac.be AND the organizers of the SLE conference. As to the latter part of the submission procedure, please follow the instructions on the conference website at http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/meetings/conference%20lisboa/call%20for%20papers.htm. When submitting the title of your abstract on the conference website, please indicate between brackets (Workshop on quotative markers) after the title of your abstract. IMPORTANT DATES: 31 January 2009: Deadline for submission of abstracts 31 March 2009: Notification of acceptance 1 April 2009: Early registration starts 1 June 2009: Registration (full fee) 9-12 September 2009: Conference _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From domenec.mendeth at gmail.com Tue Jan 6 21:52:52 2009 From: domenec.mendeth at gmail.com (Domenec Mendez) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:52:52 +0100 Subject: LiveScripts, Non-profit Organization and Cognate Bilingual Dictionaries In-Reply-To: <3333ae570901061326t5b2f690dufd2a1793b00a335c@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Cognate Bilingual Dictionaries among Indo-European languages might well be the most innovative, effective and cross-cultural tool ever created in applied linguistics. We suggest that you apply to usa or european grants to research on the topic, an interest which should lead publishers to reconsider the compilation of Cognate Bilingual Dictionaries. thank you for your interest, kind regards, Domenec Mendez President LiveScripts. 609 37 12 31 www.livescripts.ning.com ps. LiveScripts is a legal non-profit association whose main activity consists of publishing a magazine with the transcripts of any DVD or TV premier in original version as reading guides before watching the movie; addressed to the general public and all kind of students. Although we are not obliged to, we are committed to pay copyrights and therefore benefit all parties involved in the movie industry, studios, producers, distributors, authors, translators and viewers. _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From claire.bowern at yale.edu Thu Jan 8 05:32:46 2009 From: claire.bowern at yale.edu (Claire Bowern) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 00:32:46 -0500 Subject: [Fwd: Please post: Call for paper: ICHL 19 session-- Grammaticalization in East Asia] Message-ID: Forwarded on behalf of the original poster - please contact them for more information ~CB. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Please post: Call for paper: ICHL 19 session-- Grammaticalization in East Asia Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 10:03:15 -0800 From: Watanabe, Kazuha CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop: Grammaticalization in East Asia 10-15 August, 2009 Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 January, 2008 Conference URL: http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/ Contact: Kazuha Watanabe, California State University, Fullerton (kwtanabe at fullerton.edu) Previous research on grammaticalization in East Asian languages mainly focuses on the individual changes occurring in a specific language as well as comparison between examples from Asian languages and previous studies in European languages as an isolated phenomenon. For example, while TAM markers in these languages have been studied extensively, most of the work concentrates on the development path of individual markers, rather than change in TAM system as a whole. In addition, the research data is often collected from the standard variety of a language, while the dialectal data is often neglected. Therefore, this section adopts a systematic approach; the emphases will be given to an example of grammaticalization which triggers paradigmatic change, as well as typological findings in East Asian languages as a whole, in a specific language family, or among dialects of one language, which differ from the rest of the world. The systematic approach to grammaticalization will not only enable us to amalgamate the previous findings of the individual changes, it will also evaluate their validity. The workshop is a part of the ICHL19 conference. Anonymous abstracts should be submitted via the ICHL-19 website: http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/. Kazuha Watanabe, Ph.D Assistant Professor Department of Modern Languages and Literature California State University, Fullerton (714)278-3907 -- -------------- Claire Bowern Assistant Professor of Linguistics Yale University 370 Temple St New Haven, CT 06511 _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From Nino.Amiridze at let.uu.nl Thu Jan 15 15:56:21 2009 From: Nino.Amiridze at let.uu.nl (Amiridze, Nino) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:56:21 +0100 Subject: Deadline changed! Language Contact and Change: Multiple and Bimodal Bilingual Minorities, Tartu 2009 Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple posting] Final Call Language Contact and Change: Multiple and Bimodal Bilingual Minorities New deadline for abstracts: January 19, 2009. Date: May 28, 2009 Location: Tartu, Estonia Workshop at the International Conference on Minority Languages XII (ICML 2009) Website: http://www.dipfilmod-suf.unifi.it/CMpro-v-p-236.html Contact: tartulcc at gmail.com The workshop aims at exploring the language contact and language change phenomena that characterize multiple linguistic minorities. It focuses on but is not confined to signed, Uralic and Caucasian languages. On the one hand, we intend to explore the situation of bimodal bilingualism. Data from changes in multi-modal bilingual contexts can lead to new insights into bilingualism, the typology and structure of languages, and language change and contact in general. Research into bimodal bilingualism can draw upon several methods and approaches developed for studying the bilingualism of other minority languages, and vice versa. On the other hand, we know that it is difficult to reach the bilingual individuals and communities that are deaf and belong to several linguistic minorities. Therefore, we approach the bimodal target via individual studies on minority languages. More specifically, we concentrate on the issue of language change in contact in the context of a typologically wide range of minority languages. We are looking for answers to questions such as the following: - How do deaf children of (hearing) parents belonging to linguistic minorities (e.g., Nganasan) communicate with the Deaf communities in their country and with their own parents? - How does their language change? - How can we test the change in the structure of the languages in contact in a uniform way? - What are the factors that influence the developments? - Can we work towards a typology? Invited keynote speakers: Csilla Bartha (hearing) (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest): The situation of the Deaf and national minorities in Hungary; Östen Dahl (hearing) (Stockholm University): Contact induced changes in tense and aspect systems; Tatiana Davidenko (Deaf) (Moscow Centre for Deaf Studies and Bilingual Education): Sign Language Diversity in Post-Soviet Countries; Anna Komarova (hearing) (Moscow Centre for Deaf Studies and Bilingual Education): Development of Bilingual Education of the Deaf in Post-Soviet Countries; Gaurav Mathur (Deaf) (Gallaudet University): The relationship between agreement and finiteness in sign languages; Johanna Mesch (Deaf) (Stockholm University): Variations in tactile signing - the case of one-handed conversation; Helle Metslang (hearing) (University of Tartu): Changes in Finnish and Estonian tense and aspect; Christian Rathmann (Deaf) (Hamburg University): Minority Communities within German Deaf Community; Don Stilo (hearing) (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig): Introduction to an Atlas of the Araxes-Iran Linguistic Area. Check for updates, our interdisciplinary areas, and more research questions at http://www.dipfilmod-suf.unifi.it/CMpro-v-p-236.html Submission (deadline January 19, 2009, notification January 31, 2009). Abstracts (in English, maximum 2 pages, including data and references) have to be submitted electronically as portable document format (.pdf) or Microsoft Word (.doc) files via the EasyChair conference management system (https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=lcc09). If you do not have an EasyChair account, click on the button "I have no EasyChair Account" on that page and follow the instructions. When you receive a password, you can enter the site and upload your abstract. Organizers: Nino Amiridze, Utrecht University (The Netherlands) Östen Dahl, University of Stockholm (Sweden) Anne Tamm, University of Florence (Italy) and Institute for the Estonian Language (Estonia) Manana Topadze, University of Pavia (Italy) Inge Zwitserlood, Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands) -------------- 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 Thomas.Smitherman at uib.no Fri Jan 16 19:02:33 2009 From: Thomas.Smitherman at uib.no (Thomas Smitherman) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:02:33 +0100 Subject: Final Call for papers!!! Reconstructing Alignment Systems - 20 January Message-ID: Final call for workshop - Extended Deadline: January 20th! FINAL 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 very 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 _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From Nino.Amiridze at let.uu.nl Mon Jan 5 20:26:55 2009 From: Nino.Amiridze at let.uu.nl (Amiridze, Nino) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 21:26:55 +0100 Subject: Second Call -- Language Contact and Change: Multiple and Bimodal Bilingual Minorities, Tartu 2009 Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple posting] Second Call Language Contact and Change: Multiple and Bimodal Bilingual Minorities Date: May 28, 2009 Location: Tartu, Estonia Workshop at the International Conference on Minority Languages XII (ICML 2009) Website: http://www.dipfilmod-suf.unifi.it/CMpro-v-p-236.html Contact: tartulcc at gmail.com The workshop aims at exploring the language contact and language change phenomena that characterize multiple linguistic minorities. It focuses on but is not confined to signed, Uralic and Caucasian languages. On the one hand, we intend to explore the situation of bimodal bilingualism. Data from changes in multi-modal bilingual contexts can lead to new insights into bilingualism, the typology and structure of languages, and language change and contact in general. Research into bimodal bilingualism can draw upon several methods and approaches developed for studying the bilingualism of other minority languages, and vice versa. On the other hand, we know that it is difficult to reach the bilingual individuals and communities that are deaf and belong to several linguistic minorities. Therefore, we approach the bimodal target via individual studies on minority languages. More specifically, we concentrate on the issue of language change in contact in the context of a typologically wide range of minority languages. We are looking for answers to questions such as the following: - How do deaf children of (hearing) parents belonging to linguistic minorities (e.g., Nganasan) communicate with the Deaf communities in their country and with their own parents? - How does their language change? - How can we test the change in the structure of the languages in contact in a uniform way? - What are the factors that influence the developments? - Can we work towards a typology? Invited keynote speakers: Csilla Bartha (hearing) (E?tv?s Lor?nd University, Budapest): The situation of the Deaf and national minorities in Hungary; ?sten Dahl (hearing) (Stockholm University): Contact induced changes in tense and aspect systems; Tatiana Davidenko (Deaf) (Moscow Centre for Deaf Studies and Bilingual Education): Sign Language Diversity in Post-Soviet Countries; Anna Komarova (hearing) (Moscow Centre for Deaf Studies and Bilingual Education): Development of Bilingual Education of the Deaf in Post-Soviet Countries; Gaurav Mathur (Deaf) (Gallaudet University): The relationship between agreement and finiteness in sign languages; Johanna Mesch (Deaf) (Stockholm University): Variations in tactile signing - the case of one-handed conversation; Helle Metslang (hearing) (University of Tartu): Changes in Finnish and Estonian tense and aspect; Christian Rathmann (Deaf) (Hamburg University): Minority Communities within German Deaf Community; Don Stilo (hearing) (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig): Introduction to an Atlas of the Araxes-Iran Linguistic Area. Check for updates, our interdisciplinary areas, and more research questions at http://www.dipfilmod-suf.unifi.it/CMpro-v-p-236.html Submission (deadline January 15, 2009, notification January 31, 2009). Abstracts (in English, maximum 2 pages, including data and references) have to be submitted electronically as portable document format (.pdf) or Microsoft Word (.doc) files via the EasyChair conference management system (https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=lcc09). If you do not have an EasyChair account, click on the button "I have no EasyChair Account" on that page and follow the instructions. When you receive a password, you can enter the site and upload your abstract. Organizers: Nino Amiridze, Utrecht University (The Netherlands) ?sten Dahl, University of Stockholm (Sweden) Anne Tamm, University of Florence (Italy) and Institute for the Estonian Language (Estonia) Manana Topadze, University of Pavia (Italy) Inge Zwitserlood, Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands) -------------- 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 ilja.serzants at uib.no Tue Jan 6 09:59:46 2009 From: ilja.serzants at uib.no (Ilja Serzants) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:59:46 +0100 Subject: LAST CALL FOR PAPERS. Workshop: The origin of non-canonical subject marking in Indo-European Message-ID: LAST CALL FOR PAPERS WORKSHOP: THE ORIGIN OF NON-CANONICAL SUBJECT MARKING IN INDO-EUROPEAN The research team of the project "Indo-European Case and Argument Structure from a Typological Perspective" (IECASTP) (http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP[1]) is organizing a workshop at the XIXth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (10-15 August 2009, Nijmegen, http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/[2]), devoted on the origin of non-canonical subject marking in Indo-European. The URL of the workshop is: http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP/Workshop5.htm[3] Invited speaker: Leonid Kulikov (University of Leiden) Please send a 300-word abstract in pdf format to Ilja Serzants (Ilja.Serzants at uib.no) no later than January 10th. Notification of acceptance will be sent out no later than January 25th. The abstract also has to be submitted through the main conference website at the same time. DESCRIPTION Several of the Modern Indo-European languages that have maintained morphological case exhibit structures where the subject(-like) argument is not canonically case marked. These are found amongst the Modern Germanic languages, Modern Russian, the Modern Baltic languages and the Modern Indo-Aryan languages, to mention some. It is traditionally assumed in the literature that these have developed from objects to subjects (see, for instance, Hewson and Bubenik 2006), hence the case marking. Recently, however, it has been argued for Germanic that oblique subjects in the modern languages were syntactic subjects already in Old Germanic (Eyth?rsson and Bar?dal 2005). This raises the question whether these non-canonically case-marked subject(-like) arguments were objects in Proto-Germanic or Proto-Indo-European, or whether they may have been syntactic subjects all along, given an assumption of the alignment system in Proto-Indo-European being a Fluid-S system (cf. Bar?dal and Eyth?rsson 2008). It is, moreover, possible that the case marking patterns of different predicate types have different origins in Indo-European. The aim of this workshop is therefore to gather researchers who work on case marking in Indo-European, and case marking in general, to a forum where the more general topic of the origin of this non-canonical case marking can be discussed. By doing that, we hope to shed light on this important issue within case marking and alignment, historical linguistics, and Indo-European studies. LOCATION: Radboud University Nijmegen, Centre for Language Studies/Language in Time and Space Please check the website of the host conference for issues like registration, conference fee, social program, etc. http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/[4]) -- Ilja Serzants PhD Research Student Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen P.O. box 7805 NO-5020 Bergen Norway -------------- next part -------------- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS WORKSHOP: THE ORIGIN OF NON-CANONICAL SUBJECT MARKING IN INDO-EUROPEAN The research team of the project ?Indo-European Case and Argument Structure from a Typological Perspective? (IECASTP) (http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP[1]) is organizing a workshop at the XIXth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (10-15 August 2009, Nijmegen, http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/[2]), devoted on the origin of non-canonical subject marking in Indo-European. The URL of the workshop is: http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP/Workshop5.htm[3] Invited speaker: Leonid Kulikov (University of Leiden) Please send a 300-word abstract in pdf format to Ilja Serzants (Ilja.Serzants at uib.no) no later than January 10th. Notification of acceptance will be sent out no later than January 25th. The abstract also has to be submitted through the main conference website at the same time. DESCRIPTION Several of the Modern Indo-European languages that have maintained morphological case exhibit structures where the subject(-like) argument is not canonically case marked. These are found amongst the Modern Germanic languages, Modern Russian, the Modern Baltic languages and the Modern Indo-Aryan languages, to mention some. It is traditionally assumed in the literature that these have developed from objects to subjects (see, for instance, Hewson and Bubenik 2006), hence the case marking. Recently, however, it has been argued for Germanic that oblique subjects in the modern languages were syntactic subjects already in Old Germanic (Eyth?rsson and Bar?dal 2005). This raises the question whether these non-canonically case-marked subject(-like) arguments were objects in Proto-Germanic or Proto-Indo-European, or whether they may have been syntactic subjects all along, given an assumption of the alignment system in Proto-Indo-European being a Fluid-S system (cf. Bar?dal and Eyth?rsson 2008). It is, moreover, possible that the case marking patterns of different predicate types have different origins in Indo-European. The aim of this workshop is therefore to gather researchers who work on case marking in Indo-European, and case marking in general, to a forum where the more general topic of the origin of this non-canonical case marking can be discussed. By doing that, we hope to shed light on this important issue within case marking and alignment, historical linguistics, and Indo-European studies. LOCATION: Radboud University Nijmegen, Centre for Language Studies/Language in Time and Space Please check the website of the host conference for issues like registration, conference fee, social program, etc. http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/[4]) -- Ilja Serzants PhD Research Student Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen P.O. box 7805 NO-5020 Bergen Norway Links: ------ [1] http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP [2] http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/ [3] http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP/Workshop5.htm [4] http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS WORKSHOP: THE ORIGIN OF NON-CANONICAL SUBJECT MARKING IN INDO-EUROPEAN The research team of the project ?Indo-European Case and Argument Structure from a Typological Perspective? (IECASTP) (http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP) is organizing a workshop at the XIXth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (10-15 August 2009, Nijmegen, http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/), devoted on the origin of non-canonical subject marking in Indo-European. The URL of the workshop is: http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP/Workshop5.htm Invited speaker: Leonid Kulikov (University of Leiden) Please send a 300-word abstract in pdf format to Ilja Serzants (Ilja.Serzants at uib.no) no later than January 10th. Notification of acceptance will be sent out no later than January 25th. The abstract also has to be submitted through the main conference website at the same time. DESCRIPTION Several of the Modern Indo-European languages that have maintained morphological case exhibit structures where the subject(-like) argument is not canonically case marked. These are found amongst the Modern Germanic languages, Modern Russian, the Modern Baltic languages and the Modern Indo-Aryan languages, to mention some. It is traditionally assumed in the literature that these have developed from objects to subjects (see, for instance, Hewson and Bubenik 2006), hence the case marking. Recently, however, it has been argued for Germanic that oblique subjects in the modern languages were syntactic subjects already in Old Germanic (Eyth?rsson and Bar?dal 2005). This raises the question whether these non-canonically case-marked subject(-like) arguments were objects in Proto-Germanic or Proto-Indo-European, or whether they may have been syntactic subjects all along, given an assumption of the alignment system in Proto-Indo-European being a Fluid-S system (cf. Bar?dal and Eyth?rsson 2008). It is, moreover, possible that the case marking patterns of different predicate types have different origins in Indo-European. The aim of this workshop is therefore to gather researchers who work on case marking in Indo-European, and case marking in general, to a forum where the more general topic of the origin of this non-canonical case marking can be discussed. By doing that, we hope to shed light on this important issue within case marking and alignment, historical linguistics, and Indo-European studies. LOCATION: Radboud University Nijmegen, Centre for Language Studies/Language in Time and Space Please check the website of the host conference for issues like registration, conference fee, social program, etc. http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/) -- Ilja Serzants PhD Research Student Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen P.O. box 7805 NO-5020 Bergen Norway -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From honohiiri at yandex.ru Tue Jan 6 16:02:13 2009 From: honohiiri at yandex.ru (Idiatov Dmitry) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 19:02:13 +0300 Subject: CALL: Workshop on Quotative markers (SLE 42, Lisbon, 9-12 Sep, 2009) Message-ID: Location: Lisbon, Portugal Start Date: 09-Sep-2009 - 12-Sep-2009 Contact: Dmitry Idiatov Meeting Email: dmitry.idiatov at ua.ac.be Meeting Description: A workshop at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Lisbon, 9-12 September, 2009. ?Quotative markers: origins and use? CALL FOR PAPERS: ?Quotative markers: origins and use? Convenors: Dmitry Idiatov (University of Antwerp) Hubert Cuyckens (University of Leuven) Keynote speaker: Tom Gu?ldemann (University of Zu?rich / Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) Quotative markers are linguistic signs conventionally signaling the presence of an adjacent representation of reported discourse, i.e. the quote. Semantically, they are largely similar to generic speech verbs, such as say and tell in English, with which they share the feature of reference to an utterance. Functionally, however, they differ from the latter in being conventionalized in relation to reported discourse. That is, either they are not used in other contexts at all or they lack (fully or partially) the feature of reference to an utterance when no representation of reported discourse is adjacent. Consider, for instance, _be like_ in English in _And he?s like: ?That?s great!?_. Following G?ldemann (2008), the quote frame based on a quotative marker or/and a speech verb is called a quotative index. G?ldemann (2008) also provides a detailed classification of quotative markers. Thus, syntactically, quotative markers can be either predicative or nonpredicative elements. Morphosyntactically, predicative quotative markers may behave as regular verbs and are then classified as quotative verbs. Those predicative quotative markers that do not fully qualify for the status of verb in a given language are referred to as quotative predicators. Nonpredicative quotative markers are often referred to as quotative complementizers, especially when they are also used for purposes of clause combining. Historically, quotative markers may derive from a large number of sources, such as generic speech verbs, generic verbs of equation, inchoativity, action, and motion, markers of similarity and manner, markers of focus, presentation and identification. Somewhat surprisingly, according to G?ldemann (2008:295), at least in African languages, generic speech verbs appear to be ?far less important? as sources of quotative markers than is usually assumed in the literature. At the same time, it is remarkable that quotative markers of various nonpredicative origins often tend to gradually acquire verbal features up to becoming full-fledged verbal lexemes through their conventionalized use as core elements of quotative indexes. In many African languages, quotative markers are also regularly employed for purposes of clause combining and extended to constructions expressing intention and various kinds of modal meanings. The proposed workshop is intended to bring together scholars interested in the origins and use of quotative markers in individual languages, language families or linguistic areas from any part of the world. Particularly welcome are papers based on data from spontaneous and spoken language use and data from less documented languages. Authors are also encouraged to situate their findings in a broader cross-linguistic perspective, both as regards the known sources of quotative markers as well as their typical secondary extensions to contexts not involving instances of reported discourse in the strict sense. References: G?ldemann, Tom. 2008. Quotative indexes in African languages: A synchronic and diachronic survey. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 34) SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Abstracts in English are invited for 30 minute (20+10) presentations. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (exclusive of references) and should state research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. The abstract should not mention the presenter(s) nor their affiliations or addresses. Abstracts are preferably in DOC or RTF format; if your abstract contains special symbols, please include a PDF version as well. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2009. Please submit your abstract to dmitry.idiatov at ua.ac.be AND the organizers of the SLE conference. As to the latter part of the submission procedure, please follow the instructions on the conference website at http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/meetings/conference%20lisboa/call%20for%20papers.htm. When submitting the title of your abstract on the conference website, please indicate between brackets (Workshop on quotative markers) after the title of your abstract. IMPORTANT DATES: 31 January 2009: Deadline for submission of abstracts 31 March 2009: Notification of acceptance 1 April 2009: Early registration starts 1 June 2009: Registration (full fee) 9-12 September 2009: Conference _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From domenec.mendeth at gmail.com Tue Jan 6 21:52:52 2009 From: domenec.mendeth at gmail.com (Domenec Mendez) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:52:52 +0100 Subject: LiveScripts, Non-profit Organization and Cognate Bilingual Dictionaries In-Reply-To: <3333ae570901061326t5b2f690dufd2a1793b00a335c@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Cognate Bilingual Dictionaries among Indo-European languages might well be the most innovative, effective and cross-cultural tool ever created in applied linguistics. We suggest that you apply to usa or european grants to research on the topic, an interest which should lead publishers to reconsider the compilation of Cognate Bilingual Dictionaries. thank you for your interest, kind regards, Domenec Mendez President LiveScripts. 609 37 12 31 www.livescripts.ning.com ps. LiveScripts is a legal non-profit association whose main activity consists of publishing a magazine with the transcripts of any DVD or TV premier in original version as reading guides before watching the movie; addressed to the general public and all kind of students. Although we are not obliged to, we are committed to pay copyrights and therefore benefit all parties involved in the movie industry, studios, producers, distributors, authors, translators and viewers. _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From claire.bowern at yale.edu Thu Jan 8 05:32:46 2009 From: claire.bowern at yale.edu (Claire Bowern) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 00:32:46 -0500 Subject: [Fwd: Please post: Call for paper: ICHL 19 session-- Grammaticalization in East Asia] Message-ID: Forwarded on behalf of the original poster - please contact them for more information ~CB. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Please post: Call for paper: ICHL 19 session-- Grammaticalization in East Asia Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 10:03:15 -0800 From: Watanabe, Kazuha CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop: Grammaticalization in East Asia 10-15 August, 2009 Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 January, 2008 Conference URL: http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/ Contact: Kazuha Watanabe, California State University, Fullerton (kwtanabe at fullerton.edu) Previous research on grammaticalization in East Asian languages mainly focuses on the individual changes occurring in a specific language as well as comparison between examples from Asian languages and previous studies in European languages as an isolated phenomenon. For example, while TAM markers in these languages have been studied extensively, most of the work concentrates on the development path of individual markers, rather than change in TAM system as a whole. In addition, the research data is often collected from the standard variety of a language, while the dialectal data is often neglected. Therefore, this section adopts a systematic approach; the emphases will be given to an example of grammaticalization which triggers paradigmatic change, as well as typological findings in East Asian languages as a whole, in a specific language family, or among dialects of one language, which differ from the rest of the world. The systematic approach to grammaticalization will not only enable us to amalgamate the previous findings of the individual changes, it will also evaluate their validity. The workshop is a part of the ICHL19 conference. Anonymous abstracts should be submitted via the ICHL-19 website: http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/. Kazuha Watanabe, Ph.D Assistant Professor Department of Modern Languages and Literature California State University, Fullerton (714)278-3907 -- -------------- Claire Bowern Assistant Professor of Linguistics Yale University 370 Temple St New Haven, CT 06511 _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From Nino.Amiridze at let.uu.nl Thu Jan 15 15:56:21 2009 From: Nino.Amiridze at let.uu.nl (Amiridze, Nino) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:56:21 +0100 Subject: Deadline changed! Language Contact and Change: Multiple and Bimodal Bilingual Minorities, Tartu 2009 Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple posting] Final Call Language Contact and Change: Multiple and Bimodal Bilingual Minorities New deadline for abstracts: January 19, 2009. Date: May 28, 2009 Location: Tartu, Estonia Workshop at the International Conference on Minority Languages XII (ICML 2009) Website: http://www.dipfilmod-suf.unifi.it/CMpro-v-p-236.html Contact: tartulcc at gmail.com The workshop aims at exploring the language contact and language change phenomena that characterize multiple linguistic minorities. It focuses on but is not confined to signed, Uralic and Caucasian languages. On the one hand, we intend to explore the situation of bimodal bilingualism. Data from changes in multi-modal bilingual contexts can lead to new insights into bilingualism, the typology and structure of languages, and language change and contact in general. Research into bimodal bilingualism can draw upon several methods and approaches developed for studying the bilingualism of other minority languages, and vice versa. On the other hand, we know that it is difficult to reach the bilingual individuals and communities that are deaf and belong to several linguistic minorities. Therefore, we approach the bimodal target via individual studies on minority languages. More specifically, we concentrate on the issue of language change in contact in the context of a typologically wide range of minority languages. We are looking for answers to questions such as the following: - How do deaf children of (hearing) parents belonging to linguistic minorities (e.g., Nganasan) communicate with the Deaf communities in their country and with their own parents? - How does their language change? - How can we test the change in the structure of the languages in contact in a uniform way? - What are the factors that influence the developments? - Can we work towards a typology? Invited keynote speakers: Csilla Bartha (hearing) (E?tv?s Lor?nd University, Budapest): The situation of the Deaf and national minorities in Hungary; ?sten Dahl (hearing) (Stockholm University): Contact induced changes in tense and aspect systems; Tatiana Davidenko (Deaf) (Moscow Centre for Deaf Studies and Bilingual Education): Sign Language Diversity in Post-Soviet Countries; Anna Komarova (hearing) (Moscow Centre for Deaf Studies and Bilingual Education): Development of Bilingual Education of the Deaf in Post-Soviet Countries; Gaurav Mathur (Deaf) (Gallaudet University): The relationship between agreement and finiteness in sign languages; Johanna Mesch (Deaf) (Stockholm University): Variations in tactile signing - the case of one-handed conversation; Helle Metslang (hearing) (University of Tartu): Changes in Finnish and Estonian tense and aspect; Christian Rathmann (Deaf) (Hamburg University): Minority Communities within German Deaf Community; Don Stilo (hearing) (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig): Introduction to an Atlas of the Araxes-Iran Linguistic Area. Check for updates, our interdisciplinary areas, and more research questions at http://www.dipfilmod-suf.unifi.it/CMpro-v-p-236.html Submission (deadline January 19, 2009, notification January 31, 2009). Abstracts (in English, maximum 2 pages, including data and references) have to be submitted electronically as portable document format (.pdf) or Microsoft Word (.doc) files via the EasyChair conference management system (https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=lcc09). If you do not have an EasyChair account, click on the button "I have no EasyChair Account" on that page and follow the instructions. When you receive a password, you can enter the site and upload your abstract. Organizers: Nino Amiridze, Utrecht University (The Netherlands) ?sten Dahl, University of Stockholm (Sweden) Anne Tamm, University of Florence (Italy) and Institute for the Estonian Language (Estonia) Manana Topadze, University of Pavia (Italy) Inge Zwitserlood, Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands) -------------- 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 Thomas.Smitherman at uib.no Fri Jan 16 19:02:33 2009 From: Thomas.Smitherman at uib.no (Thomas Smitherman) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:02:33 +0100 Subject: Final Call for papers!!! Reconstructing Alignment Systems - 20 January Message-ID: Final call for workshop - Extended Deadline: January 20th! FINAL 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 very 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 _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l