From c.kay at englang.arts.gla.ac.uk Tue Feb 2 15:23:28 2010 From: c.kay at englang.arts.gla.ac.uk (Christian Kay ) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 15:23:28 -0000 Subject: Historical Thesaurus Scholarships 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 haspelmath at eva.mpg.de Wed Feb 3 07:30:16 2010 From: haspelmath at eva.mpg.de (Martin Haspelmath) Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 08:30:16 +0100 Subject: Announcing the World Loanword Database Message-ID: Dear historical linguists, We are pleased to announce the World Loanword Database, a fully open-access online resource, which has been released this week: http://wold.livingsources.org/. The World Loanword Database contains detailed comparable information about 58.000 words from 41 languages, contributed by 41 (teams of) specialists, and edited by Martin Haspelmath and Uri Tadmor from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. The open-access online version was programmed by Robert Forkel from the Max Planck Digital Library (Munich). The World Loanword Database answers questions such as: -- How many languages have a borrowed word for Œeye¹? (answer: 3 clear cases out of 41, http://wold.livingsources.org/meaning/4.21) -- How many languages have a non-borrowed word for Œpolice¹? (answer: 8 clear cases out of 41, http://wold.livingsources.org/meaning/23.33) -- Which semantic areas of words are the most resistant to borrowing? (answer: words expressing spatial relations, body parts, and sense perception, see http://wold.livingsources.org/semanticfield/) -- Which languages did English borrow words from, and how are they distributed geographically? (see the map on this page: http://wold.livingsources.org/language/13) These data will allow us to distinguish better between lexical similarities that are due to borrowing and similarities that are due to inheritance from a common ancestor. In conjunction with the online database, a book with three general chapters and 41 chapters on particular languages was published by De Gruyter Mouton (see http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110218435-1). One of the results of the project is an empirically based list of basic vocabulary (the Leipzig-Jakarta list) which may complement the intuitively based Swadesh list. Martin Haspelmath & Uri Tadmor (for the Loanword Typology project team) -------------- 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 wvdbussc at vub.ac.be Mon Feb 8 21:21:55 2010 From: wvdbussc at vub.ac.be (Wim Vandenbussche) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 22:21:55 +0100 Subject: 4th Summer School on Historical Sociolinguistics Message-ID: 4th Summer School on Historical Sociolinguistics HiSoN Summer School IV Date: 09-Aug-2010 - 16-Aug-2010 Location: Bruges, Belgium Contact: Nils Langer Contact Email: Nils.Langer at bristol.ac.uk Meeting URL: http://www.bris.ac.uk/german/hison/summerschool2010 This is the fourth summer school organised by the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HISON) and it will offer classes by leading experts on modern and historical sociolinguists. This year we will be in the fine city of Brugge / Bruges - whose city centre is a UNESCO world heritage site. Our teachers this year will be: Ana Deumert (University of Cape Town) Historical Sociolinguistics in A Colonial World, African Perspectives Martin Durrell (University of Manchester) Linguistic standardisation and the nation in Europe Susan Fitzmaurice (University of Sheffield) The uses of Social Networks Analysis for social description in Historical Sociolinguistics Anthony Lodge (University of St Andrews) Aspects of the sociolinguistic history of Paris Terttu Nevalainen (University of Helsinki) Historical sociolinguistics as corpus linguistics Wim Vandenbussche (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Back to the sources . Hands-on research, problems and mysteries in archives for young researchers. Hans Van de Velde (Universiteit Utrecht) When apparent becomes real. The interplay of synchronic and diachronic phonological variation in Dutch. There will be six hours of classes per day, so there is plenty of time to explore the city. You will have the opportunity to present your own research at a special session and there will be an excursion for the historically-touristically minded. The school will last for one week and the cost of 350 Euros includes accommodation, tuition, and an excursion. If you register and pay in full before May 1st, 2010, we will give you a discount of 50 Euros, i.e. you will only pay 300 Euros. Please note that there are only 40 places available. Registration is now open at www.bris.ac.uk/german/hison/summerschool2010 Contact: Nils Langer, Reader in German Linguistics, School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol, BS8 1TE, UK nils.langer at bris.ac.uk website: www.bris.ac.uk/german/hison/summerschool2010 venue: www.arthostel.be HISON: www.philhist.uni-augsburg.de/hison -------------- 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 haspelmath at eva.mpg.de Wed Feb 3 07:30:16 2010 From: haspelmath at eva.mpg.de (Martin Haspelmath) Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 08:30:16 +0100 Subject: Announcing the World Loanword Database Message-ID: Dear historical linguists, We are pleased to announce the World Loanword Database, a fully open-access online resource, which has been released this week: http://wold.livingsources.org/. The World Loanword Database contains detailed comparable information about 58.000 words from 41 languages, contributed by 41 (teams of) specialists, and edited by Martin Haspelmath and Uri Tadmor from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. The open-access online version was programmed by Robert Forkel from the Max Planck Digital Library (Munich). The World Loanword Database answers questions such as: -- How many languages have a borrowed word for ?eye?? (answer: 3 clear cases out of 41, http://wold.livingsources.org/meaning/4.21) -- How many languages have a non-borrowed word for ?police?? (answer: 8 clear cases out of 41, http://wold.livingsources.org/meaning/23.33) -- Which semantic areas of words are the most resistant to borrowing? (answer: words expressing spatial relations, body parts, and sense perception, see http://wold.livingsources.org/semanticfield/) -- Which languages did English borrow words from, and how are they distributed geographically? (see the map on this page: http://wold.livingsources.org/language/13) These data will allow us to distinguish better between lexical similarities that are due to borrowing and similarities that are due to inheritance from a common ancestor. In conjunction with the online database, a book with three general chapters and 41 chapters on particular languages was published by De Gruyter Mouton (see http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110218435-1). One of the results of the project is an empirically based list of basic vocabulary (the Leipzig-Jakarta list) which may complement the intuitively based Swadesh list. Martin Haspelmath & Uri Tadmor (for the Loanword Typology project team) -------------- 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 wvdbussc at vub.ac.be Mon Feb 8 21:21:55 2010 From: wvdbussc at vub.ac.be (Wim Vandenbussche) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 22:21:55 +0100 Subject: 4th Summer School on Historical Sociolinguistics Message-ID: 4th Summer School on Historical Sociolinguistics HiSoN Summer School IV Date: 09-Aug-2010 - 16-Aug-2010 Location: Bruges, Belgium Contact: Nils Langer Contact Email: Nils.Langer at bristol.ac.uk Meeting URL: http://www.bris.ac.uk/german/hison/summerschool2010 This is the fourth summer school organised by the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HISON) and it will offer classes by leading experts on modern and historical sociolinguists. This year we will be in the fine city of Brugge / Bruges - whose city centre is a UNESCO world heritage site. Our teachers this year will be: Ana Deumert (University of Cape Town) Historical Sociolinguistics in A Colonial World, African Perspectives Martin Durrell (University of Manchester) Linguistic standardisation and the nation in Europe Susan Fitzmaurice (University of Sheffield) The uses of Social Networks Analysis for social description in Historical Sociolinguistics Anthony Lodge (University of St Andrews) Aspects of the sociolinguistic history of Paris Terttu Nevalainen (University of Helsinki) Historical sociolinguistics as corpus linguistics Wim Vandenbussche (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Back to the sources . Hands-on research, problems and mysteries in archives for young researchers. Hans Van de Velde (Universiteit Utrecht) When apparent becomes real. The interplay of synchronic and diachronic phonological variation in Dutch. There will be six hours of classes per day, so there is plenty of time to explore the city. You will have the opportunity to present your own research at a special session and there will be an excursion for the historically-touristically minded. The school will last for one week and the cost of 350 Euros includes accommodation, tuition, and an excursion. If you register and pay in full before May 1st, 2010, we will give you a discount of 50 Euros, i.e. you will only pay 300 Euros. Please note that there are only 40 places available. Registration is now open at www.bris.ac.uk/german/hison/summerschool2010 Contact: Nils Langer, Reader in German Linguistics, School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol, BS8 1TE, UK nils.langer at bris.ac.uk website: www.bris.ac.uk/german/hison/summerschool2010 venue: www.arthostel.be HISON: www.philhist.uni-augsburg.de/hison -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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