From f.vm at fu-berlin.de Mon Sep 5 08:26:56 2011 From: f.vm at fu-berlin.de (Ferdinand von Mengden) Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 10:26:56 +0200 Subject: CfP: Refining Grammaticalization 24/25 Feb 2012, FU Berlin =?windows-1252?Q?=96=A0deadline_?=extension Message-ID: So, what is it then, this Grammaticalization? – Approaches to Refining the Notion Workshop at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 24/25 February 2012 Organizers: Ferdinand von Mengden (FU Berlin) Horst Simon (FU Berlin) Invited speakers: Ulrich Detges (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t Munich) Brian D. Joseph (Ohio State University) The deadline for submission of abstracts for the conference has been extended until September 18, 2011. For further information please consult: http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/v/Refining_Grammaticalization/ We hope to see many of you in Berlin in February. Horst Simon Ferdinand von Mengden ____________________ Ferdinand von Mengden Professor of English Historical Linguistics Institut für Englische Philologie Freie Universität Berlin Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin Germany f.vm at fu-berlin.de phone: +49 30 838-72340 secretary: +49 30 838-72325 fax +49 30 838-72300 -------------- 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 gw249 at cam.ac.uk Fri Sep 9 15:25:49 2011 From: gw249 at cam.ac.uk (George Walkden) Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 16:25:49 +0100 Subject: [JHS] Launch of Journal of Historical Syntax: call for papers! Message-ID: Dear all, On behalf of the editorial board, I'm very pleased to announce the launch of a brand new journal in the area of historical syntax, innovatively titled Journal of Historical Syntax (JHS). Its website is online at . The journal is a peer-reviewed open access publication hosted as past of the Linguistic Society of America's eLanguage platform. JHS is intended to present theoretically-informed papers dealing with any aspect of historical syntax, whether diachronic change or the synchronic description of historical language states. This subfield of linguistics has never in the past had its own journal, but the flourishing of work in the area since the 1970s, bringing with it advances in the understanding of typical pathways of change as well as in the understanding of the relationship between syntactic theory and diachrony and in the tools of the discipline (large annotated corpora), means that such a journal is long overdue. The open access, online-only format of the journal makes it ideal for hosting articles that go beyond the limitations of print. For instance, in historical syntax, corpus queries and collections of data can be linked to from within the article, making high quality quantitative work replicable in a way that is impossible in traditional print journals, with no limit on length within reason. The journal is now accepting submissions! Papers that combine philological expertise with insights from linguistic theory are particularly welcome, though no particular theory or framework will be given precedence. Alongside full-length articles, squibs of up to 3,000 words and book reviews are also welcome. The speed of publication should be much greater than that found in traditional print journals or printed conference volumes: authors should hear back within twelve weeks, and articles will be published online as soon as they are accepted. Earlier this week at the LAGB annual meeting in Manchester, Mark Liberman suggested during his plenary lecture that historical syntax was one of the subdisciplines of linguistics that is currently at the dawn of a new golden age. JHS hopes to aid in the dissemination of this golden-age research - we welcome your submissions! Best wishes, - George Walkden Editor ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: George Walkden PhD Student, DTAL Clare College, University of Cambridge gw249 at cam.ac.uk http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~gw249/ ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From luraghi at unipv.it Sun Sep 18 07:07:48 2011 From: luraghi at unipv.it (Silvia Luraghi) Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 09:07:48 +0200 Subject: Historical-Comparative Linguistics in the 21st Century - Pavia, 22-25 September 2011 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: >Apologies for cross-posting Historical-Comparative Linguistics in the 21st Century Pavia, 22-25 September 2011 http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/convegni.php?id=57 22 September 15.15 Pre-opening session 15.20-15.40 Alessandra Caviglia, Pavia - Introduction to the poster session 15.45 -16.45 Poster Session organized by Alessandra Caviglia 16.45-17.15 Break Session 1 Chair Elisabetta Jezek 17.15 Elisabetta Jezek, Pavia - Introduction: “Quantitative methods and corpora” 17.30 Michael Cysouw, München, “Quantitative approaches to the reconstruction of meaning change” 18.00 Dag Haug, Oslo, “Personal names with articles in New Testament Greek. A quantitative approach” 23 September 9.00 Opening address Angiolino Stella, President of the University Alessandro Cattaneo, Mayor of the City of Pavia Dario Mantovani, Coordinator of celebrations for the 650th anniversary of the University Bernhard Hauer, Deputy Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany Riccardo Pozzo, Humboldt Fellows Association Ulrich Braess, Director of the Goethe-Institut Mailand Elisa Romano, Dean of the Faculty of Arts Gianguido Manzelli, Chair of the Linguistic Department 10.30 Rosemarie Lühr, Jena, President of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft, “Zur Rekonstruktion der indogermanischen Syntax heute” 11.00 Break Session 2. - Chair Rosemarie Lühr 11.30 Elisabeth Rieken, Marburg, “Neue Wege und Irrwege in der indogermanistischen Forschung” 12.00 Gerd Carling, Uppsala “Structural typology and the role of historical linguistics - towards a synthesis” 12.30 Mate Kapovi , Zagreb, “Historical-Comparative and Variationist Linguistics” 13-14.30 Break Session 3 - Chair Pierluigi Cuzzolin 14.30 Pierluigi Cuzzolin, Bergamo - Introduction: “Reconstructing alignment in PIE” 14.40 Leonid Kulikov, Leiden, “Transitivity and labile syntax in Proto-Indo-European: A diachronic typological approach” 15.10 Ranko Matasovi , Zagreb, “The re-evaluation of the evidence for PIE as a language with active clause alignment” 15.40 Ilya Yakubovich, Moscow State University, “Privative ergativity in Hittite” 16.10 Discussion 16.30 Break Session 4. - Chair Elisabeth Rieken 17.00 Antonio Loprieno, Basel, “On the typology of focus in Egyptian” 17.30 Maria Carmela Benvenuto, Roma Sapienza, “Possessive and existential contructions in Ancient Greek. A discourse perspective” 18.00 Elena Skribnik, München, “South Siberian Turkic languages: past language contacts” 24 September Session 5 - Chair Antonio Loprieno 9.00 Tijmen Pronk, Zagreb, “Slavic words denoting emotions and their Indo-European origin” 9.30 Matthias Urban, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, “Semantic Change and the Methodology of Semantic Reconstruction” 10.00 Paola Dardano, Siena Stranieri, “Anatolischer Wortschatz und Phraseologie: Ererbtes und fremde Einflüsse” 10.30-11.00 Break Session 6 - Chair Elisa Roma 11.00 Livio Gaeta, Napoli Federico II “On evolutive and adaptive change: Historical-comparative linguistics and the origin of language” 11.30 Maria Napoli, Siena Stranieri, “The Indo-European Verb in the 21st Century. On the category of Aspect” 12.00 Guided tour of the University 13.30-15.00 Break Session 8- Chair Ranko Matasovi 15.00 Pietro Dini, Pisa, “Philologisches und Linguistisches am Beispiel der Übersetzungen ins Altpreussische” 15.30 Daniel Petit, École Normale Supérieure Paris, “On indefinite pronouns in the Baltic languages” 16.00-16.30 Break Session 6 - Chair Daniel Petit 16.30 Egle Mocciaro, Palermo “Agency and agentive prepositions in Late Latin” 17.00 Luisa Brucale, Palermo “Manner of motion verbs in Latin” 18.00 Walking tour of Pavia 25 September Session 7 - Chair Gerd Carling 9.00 Luz Conti, Madrid Autónoma, “Temporal and conjunctive Adverbs in Ancient Greek: A historical overview” 9.30 Stefanie Fauconnier, Leuven, “The Ancient Greek relative clause from a typological perspective” 10.00 César Ruiz, Madrid Complutense, “Productivity and language corpus” 10.30-11.00 Break 11.00 Round table hosted by Davide Ricca, Torino 12.30 Silvia Luraghi, Pavia - Conclusion Silvia Luraghi Dipartimento di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata Università di Pavia Strada Nuova 65 I-27100 Pavia telef.: +39-0382-984685 fax: +39-0382-984487 silvia.luraghi at unipv.it http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=68 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For further information please consult: http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/v/Refining_Grammaticalization/ We hope to see many of you in Berlin in February. Horst Simon Ferdinand von Mengden ____________________ Ferdinand von Mengden Professor of English Historical Linguistics Institut f?r Englische Philologie Freie Universit?t Berlin Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin Germany f.vm at fu-berlin.de phone: +49 30 838-72340 secretary: +49 30 838-72325 fax +49 30 838-72300 -------------- 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 gw249 at cam.ac.uk Fri Sep 9 15:25:49 2011 From: gw249 at cam.ac.uk (George Walkden) Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 16:25:49 +0100 Subject: [JHS] Launch of Journal of Historical Syntax: call for papers! Message-ID: Dear all, On behalf of the editorial board, I'm very pleased to announce the launch of a brand new journal in the area of historical syntax, innovatively titled Journal of Historical Syntax (JHS). Its website is online at . The journal is a peer-reviewed open access publication hosted as past of the Linguistic Society of America's eLanguage platform. JHS is intended to present theoretically-informed papers dealing with any aspect of historical syntax, whether diachronic change or the synchronic description of historical language states. This subfield of linguistics has never in the past had its own journal, but the flourishing of work in the area since the 1970s, bringing with it advances in the understanding of typical pathways of change as well as in the understanding of the relationship between syntactic theory and diachrony and in the tools of the discipline (large annotated corpora), means that such a journal is long overdue. The open access, online-only format of the journal makes it ideal for hosting articles that go beyond the limitations of print. For instance, in historical syntax, corpus queries and collections of data can be linked to from within the article, making high quality quantitative work replicable in a way that is impossible in traditional print journals, with no limit on length within reason. The journal is now accepting submissions! Papers that combine philological expertise with insights from linguistic theory are particularly welcome, though no particular theory or framework will be given precedence. Alongside full-length articles, squibs of up to 3,000 words and book reviews are also welcome. The speed of publication should be much greater than that found in traditional print journals or printed conference volumes: authors should hear back within twelve weeks, and articles will be published online as soon as they are accepted. Earlier this week at the LAGB annual meeting in Manchester, Mark Liberman suggested during his plenary lecture that historical syntax was one of the subdisciplines of linguistics that is currently at the dawn of a new golden age. JHS hopes to aid in the dissemination of this golden-age research - we welcome your submissions! Best wishes, - George Walkden Editor ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: George Walkden PhD Student, DTAL Clare College, University of Cambridge gw249 at cam.ac.uk http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~gw249/ ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From luraghi at unipv.it Sun Sep 18 07:07:48 2011 From: luraghi at unipv.it (Silvia Luraghi) Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 09:07:48 +0200 Subject: Historical-Comparative Linguistics in the 21st Century - Pavia, 22-25 September 2011 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: >Apologies for cross-posting Historical-Comparative Linguistics in the 21st Century Pavia, 22-25 September 2011 http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/convegni.php?id=57 22 September 15.15 Pre-opening session 15.20-15.40 Alessandra Caviglia, Pavia - Introduction to the poster session 15.45 -16.45 Poster Session organized by Alessandra Caviglia 16.45-17.15 Break Session 1 Chair Elisabetta Jezek 17.15 Elisabetta Jezek, Pavia - Introduction: ?Quantitative methods and corpora? 17.30 Michael Cysouw, M?nchen, ?Quantitative approaches to the reconstruction of meaning change? 18.00 Dag Haug, Oslo, ?Personal names with articles in New Testament Greek. A quantitative approach? 23 September 9.00 Opening address Angiolino Stella, President of the University Alessandro Cattaneo, Mayor of the City of Pavia Dario Mantovani, Coordinator of celebrations for the 650th anniversary of the University Bernhard Hauer, Deputy Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany Riccardo Pozzo, Humboldt Fellows Association Ulrich Braess, Director of the Goethe-Institut Mailand Elisa Romano, Dean of the Faculty of Arts Gianguido Manzelli, Chair of the Linguistic Department 10.30 Rosemarie L?hr, Jena, President of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft, ?Zur Rekonstruktion der indogermanischen Syntax heute? 11.00 Break Session 2. - Chair Rosemarie L?hr 11.30 Elisabeth Rieken, Marburg, ?Neue Wege und Irrwege in der indogermanistischen Forschung? 12.00 Gerd Carling, Uppsala ?Structural typology and the role of historical linguistics - towards a synthesis? 12.30 Mate Kapovi , Zagreb, ?Historical-Comparative and Variationist Linguistics? 13-14.30 Break Session 3 - Chair Pierluigi Cuzzolin 14.30 Pierluigi Cuzzolin, Bergamo - Introduction: ?Reconstructing alignment in PIE? 14.40 Leonid Kulikov, Leiden, ?Transitivity and labile syntax in Proto-Indo-European: A diachronic typological approach? 15.10 Ranko Matasovi , Zagreb, ?The re-evaluation of the evidence for PIE as a language with active clause alignment? 15.40 Ilya Yakubovich, Moscow State University, ?Privative ergativity in Hittite? 16.10 Discussion 16.30 Break Session 4. - Chair Elisabeth Rieken 17.00 Antonio Loprieno, Basel, ?On the typology of focus in Egyptian? 17.30 Maria Carmela Benvenuto, Roma Sapienza, ?Possessive and existential contructions in Ancient Greek. A discourse perspective? 18.00 Elena Skribnik, M?nchen, ?South Siberian Turkic languages: past language contacts? 24 September Session 5 - Chair Antonio Loprieno 9.00 Tijmen Pronk, Zagreb, ?Slavic words denoting emotions and their Indo-European origin? 9.30 Matthias Urban, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, ?Semantic Change and the Methodology of Semantic Reconstruction? 10.00 Paola Dardano, Siena Stranieri, ?Anatolischer Wortschatz und Phraseologie: Ererbtes und fremde Einfl?sse? 10.30-11.00 Break Session 6 - Chair Elisa Roma 11.00 Livio Gaeta, Napoli Federico II ?On evolutive and adaptive change: Historical-comparative linguistics and the origin of language? 11.30 Maria Napoli, Siena Stranieri, ?The Indo-European Verb in the 21st Century. On the category of Aspect? 12.00 Guided tour of the University 13.30-15.00 Break Session 8- Chair Ranko Matasovi 15.00 Pietro Dini, Pisa, ?Philologisches und Linguistisches am Beispiel der ?bersetzungen ins Altpreussische? 15.30 Daniel Petit, ?cole Normale Sup?rieure Paris, ?On indefinite pronouns in the Baltic languages? 16.00-16.30 Break Session 6 - Chair Daniel Petit 16.30 Egle Mocciaro, Palermo ?Agency and agentive prepositions in Late Latin? 17.00 Luisa Brucale, Palermo ?Manner of motion verbs in Latin? 18.00 Walking tour of Pavia 25 September Session 7 - Chair Gerd Carling 9.00 Luz Conti, Madrid Aut?noma, ?Temporal and conjunctive Adverbs in Ancient Greek: A historical overview? 9.30 Stefanie Fauconnier, Leuven, ?The Ancient Greek relative clause from a typological perspective? 10.00 C?sar Ruiz, Madrid Complutense, ?Productivity and language corpus? 10.30-11.00 Break 11.00 Round table hosted by Davide Ricca, Torino 12.30 Silvia Luraghi, Pavia - Conclusion Silvia Luraghi Dipartimento di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata Universit? di Pavia Strada Nuova 65 I-27100 Pavia telef.: +39-0382-984685 fax: +39-0382-984487 silvia.luraghi at unipv.it http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=68 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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