From johncharles.smith at stcatz.ox.ac.uk Fri Aug 2 09:53:05 2013 From: johncharles.smith at stcatz.ox.ac.uk (John Charles Smith) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 09:53:05 +0000 Subject: ISHL Business Meeting, Oslo =?windows-1252?Q?=97_?=ISHL Membership of CIPL Message-ID: TO MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS Dear Friends and Colleagues, I have received a paper from Camiel Hamans regarding the possible affiliation of ISHL to CIPL (the Comité international permanent des linguistes). I am appending this (short) document at the end of this message, rather than sending it as an attachment. It will be discussed at the ISHL Business Meeting in Oslo on Thursday, 8 August. I look forward to seeing many of you there. With all good wishes, John Charles Smith Secretary, ISHL — John Charles Smith Official Fellow and Tutor, St Catherine's College, Oxford, OX1 3UJ, UK Deputy Director, Research Centre for Romance Linguistics, University of Oxford tel. +44 1865 271700 (College) / 271748 (direct) / 271768 (fax) _____________________ FROM CAMIEL HAMANS A NOTE ABOUT CIPL AND POSSIBLE ISHL MEMBERSHIP OF CIPL 1. Introduction CIPL, the Comité International Permanent des Linguistes, was founded in 1928, during the First International Congress of Linguists, in The Hague. This Congress, organized by C. C. Uhlenbeck and Jos Schreijen, was a landmark in the history of the study of linguistics. At the Congress, Antoine Meillet proposed that an international congress should be held regularly, a proposal which was unanimously accepted. This was the beginning of CIPL. A Committee was set up to ensure the organization of future congresses. The last Congress (the nineteenth) has just taken place in Geneva (19th ICL, 21-27 July 2013). 2. Aims and Objectives Since 1949 CIPL has been an affiliated member of UNESCO’s International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies (ICPHS), and as such is the only representative of the linguistics community at international level. CIPL is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, based in the Netherlands, open to all whose aim is to further the knowledge and champion the cause of linguistics throughout the world. CIPL seeks to encourage the development of linguistic science, and to achieve this by: • organizing the International Congress of Linguists (ICL/CIL) every five years, in close cooperation with national committees or institutes devoted to linguistic research. In recent years, the linguistic congress has been attended by more than one thousand linguists, representing every continent. The number of papers presented has grown accordingly (in Geneva, there were more than 700 papers and posters), as has the size of the Proceedings. The next ICL/CIL will take place in September 2018, in Cape Town, South Africa. • preparing and publishing the Linguistic Bibliography – Bibliographie Linguistique. CIPL has assumed this responsibility since 1948; this work is now published by Brill Publishers, Leiden. • participating in and sponsoring special linguistic projects, small conferences and seminars. Most recently, these have concerned Endangered Languages in South Africa, Australia, the UK and the USA, and the relationship between Linguistics and Neuroscience in Brazil. 3. Areas of Special Interest In addition, CIPL is involved in the description of a number of languages in danger of extinction in the Asia–Pacific region, and, equally worthy of note, in the publication of Stephen A. Wurm, Peter Mühlhäusler and Darrell T. Tryon (eds) (1996) Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia and the Americas. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. CIPL has a long-term commitment to work on language endangerment. Its Fifteenth Congress, in Québec in 1992, was devoted to this theme. A series of keynote papers was commissioned from leading experts in each area of the world, and the resulting pre-Congress volume (Robins & Uhlenbeck 1991) was the first worldwide survey of the field. 4. Membership Until now, membership of CIPL has been open to national linguistic institutions and research centres in all countries where these exist. However, the CIPL statutes define it as an international organization. In consequence, CIPL has recently changed its policy. In addition to national linguistic organizations and institutions, it is now possible for international linguistic organizations which specialize in particular subfields of linguistics to apply for membership. For this reason, CIPL has invited ICHL to become a member of CIPL and participate in its activities. CIPL is actively seeking to strengthen its base in the various (sub)disciplines of linguistics, in order to be able to represent and stimulate the field better. Currently, historical linguistics is not well represented in CIPL, and ISHL membership would therefore be welcomed. 5. Organization The board of CIPL consists of Prof. Ferenc Kiefer, President; Prof. David Bradley, Vice-President; and Prof. Piet van Sterkenburg, Secretary-General and Treasurer. CIPL consists of an Executive Committee of eight members and a General Assembly in which all participating national and international organizations are represented and discuss the policy of CIPL in general. 6. Website Further information on all the above is available from the CIPL website: http://www.ciplnet.com/ . 7. Subscription The cost of CIPL membership is currently US $300 per annum. It is proposed that the sum of US $600 (representing two years’ membership) should be raised through the charges for each ICHL. This would add approximately US $4 to the conference fee. Camiel Hamans, Member of the General Assembly of CIPL 31 July 2013 -------------- 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 silvia.luraghi at unipv.it Wed Aug 7 20:27:18 2013 From: silvia.luraghi at unipv.it (Silvia Luraghi) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 22:27:18 +0200 Subject: Call for papers - Syntax of the World's Languages VI Message-ID: *** Apologies for cross-posting *** The sixth `Syntax of the World's Languages' conference (SWL6) will be held at the University of Pavia, Italy, on 8-10 September 2014. In the same spirit as previous conferences in this series (SWL I - Leipzig 2004, SWL II - Lancaster 2006, SWL III - Berlin 2008, SWL IV - Lyon 2010, and SWL V - Dubrovnik 2012), the conference will provide a forum for linguists working on the syntax of less widely studied languages from a variety of perspectives. The main purpose of the conference is to enlarge our knowledge and understanding of syntactic diversity. Contributions are expected to be based on first-hand data of individual languages or to adopt a broadly comparative perspective. The discussion of theoretical issues is appreciated to the extent that it helps to elucidate the data and is understandable without prior knowledge of the relevant theory. All theoretical frameworks are equally welcome, and papers that adopt a diachronic or comparative perspective are also welcome, as are papers dealing with morphological or semantic issues, as long as syntactic issues also play a major role. Abstracts of no more than one page (plus possibly one additional page for examples), should be sent in PDF format to swl6.conference at gmail.com by January 31st, 2014, with ''SWL6 abstract'' in the subject line (authors will receive notification of acceptance by March 31st, 2014). Submissions should be anonymous and refrain from self-reference. Please provide contact details (name and email address) and the title of your presentation in the body of the email. Participants may not be involved in more than two abstracts, of which at most one may be single-authored. The conference will be held in English and abstracts must be submitted in English. For further information, please visit the conference website at: http://swl-6.wikidot.com/ -- Silvia Luraghi Università di Pavia Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Sezione di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata Strada Nuova 65 I-27100 Pavia tel.: +39/0382/984685 Web page personale: http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=68 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In part to celebrate this, and in part because Historical Phonology is inherently worth celebrating, we are organising a Symposium on Historical Phonology, to be held at the University of Edinburgh on 13th and 14th January 2014. The Handbook aims to gather together perspectives on phonological change and on the reconstruction of past phonological states from across the discipline. The table of contents is available here: http://www.joseph-salmons.net/handbook Contributors to the Handbook have been invited to attend the symposium, and those listed below provisionally intend to attend. The symposium will consist of presentations by some of them, the organisers, and anyone else who would like to attend (see the call for papers below). The intention is for the event to be organised informally but to involve serious discussion of theoretical and practical issues in Historical Phonology. * Ricardo Bermudez-Otero (University of Manchester) * Andras Cser (Pázmány Péter Catholic University) * Patricia J. Donegan (University of Hawai‘i) * B. Elan Dresher (University of Toronto) * David Fertig (University at Buffalo) * Mark Hale (Concordia University) * Patrick Honeybone (University of Edinburgh) * Madelyn Kissock (Concordia University) * Roger Lass (University of Cape Town) * Warren Maguire (University of Edinburgh) * Donka Minkova (UCLA) * Geoffrey S. Nathan (Wayne State University) * Martha Ratliff (Wayne State University) * Joseph Salmons (University of Wisconsin, Madison) * Tobias Scheer (Laboratoire BCL, University of Nice) * Daniel Schreier (University of Zurich) * Laura Catharine Smith (Brigham Young University) * Christian Uffmann (University of Sussex) * Adam Ussishkin (University of Arizona) * Marilyn Vihman (University of York) * Andrew Wedel (University of Arizona) * Malcah Yaeger-Dror (University of Arizona) * Alan C.L. Yu (University of Chicago) ------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS We would now like to open participation to the symposium to anyone else with an interest in Historical Phonology. The fee for attendance will be minimal. If you would like to present at the symposium, you will need to send in a 250 word abstract explaining what you would like to discuss by 30th September at the very latest. We anticipate that most abstracts will be awarded a poster presentation slot. If more abstracts are received than can be accommodated, abstracts will be selected by the symposium organisers on the basis of the broadness of their relevance, modified by an impetus to ensure that a wide range of perspectives are represented. We welcome abstracts which discuss any aspect of Historical Phonology. Your abstract should be no more than 250 words long and should explain the issues you aim to discuss and any results or conclusions you have. References may be included, and can be ignored for the word-count. As we hope not to have much, if anything, in the way of abstract reviewing, abstracts should be identified, with the title of your presentation and your name at the top. You should send your abstract as a pdf file by midnight on 30th September (GMT/UTC) as an attachment to an email to: patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk. Please make sure any phonetic font that you use is embedded in the pdf. Please see the symposium's website for further details: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/symposium-on-historical-phonology/ ------------------------ ORGANISERS All those involved in the Handbook have contributed to the symposium in some way. The organisation of the event itself is in the hands of the Handbook's editors: * Patrick Honeybone (University of Edinburgh) * Joseph Salmons (University of Wisconsin, Madison) And of the following: * Rhona Alcorn (University of Edinburgh) * Julian Bradfield (University of Edinburgh) * Pavel Iosad (University of Edinburgh) * James Kirby (University of Edinburgh) * Warren Maguire (University of Edinburgh) * Michael Ramsammy (University of Edinburgh) -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From johncharles.smith at stcatz.ox.ac.uk Fri Aug 2 09:53:05 2013 From: johncharles.smith at stcatz.ox.ac.uk (John Charles Smith) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 09:53:05 +0000 Subject: ISHL Business Meeting, Oslo =?windows-1252?Q?=97_?=ISHL Membership of CIPL Message-ID: TO MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS Dear Friends and Colleagues, I have received a paper from Camiel Hamans regarding the possible affiliation of ISHL to CIPL (the Comit? international permanent des linguistes). I am appending this (short) document at the end of this message, rather than sending it as an attachment. It will be discussed at the ISHL Business Meeting in Oslo on Thursday, 8 August. I look forward to seeing many of you there. With all good wishes, John Charles Smith Secretary, ISHL ? John Charles Smith Official Fellow and Tutor, St Catherine's College, Oxford, OX1 3UJ, UK Deputy Director, Research Centre for Romance Linguistics, University of Oxford tel. +44 1865 271700 (College) / 271748 (direct) / 271768 (fax) _____________________ FROM CAMIEL HAMANS A NOTE ABOUT CIPL AND POSSIBLE ISHL MEMBERSHIP OF CIPL 1. Introduction CIPL, the Comit? International Permanent des Linguistes, was founded in 1928, during the First International Congress of Linguists, in The Hague. This Congress, organized by C. C. Uhlenbeck and Jos Schreijen, was a landmark in the history of the study of linguistics. At the Congress, Antoine Meillet proposed that an international congress should be held regularly, a proposal which was unanimously accepted. This was the beginning of CIPL. A Committee was set up to ensure the organization of future congresses. The last Congress (the nineteenth) has just taken place in Geneva (19th ICL, 21-27 July 2013). 2. Aims and Objectives Since 1949 CIPL has been an affiliated member of UNESCO?s International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies (ICPHS), and as such is the only representative of the linguistics community at international level. CIPL is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, based in the Netherlands, open to all whose aim is to further the knowledge and champion the cause of linguistics throughout the world. CIPL seeks to encourage the development of linguistic science, and to achieve this by: ? organizing the International Congress of Linguists (ICL/CIL) every five years, in close cooperation with national committees or institutes devoted to linguistic research. In recent years, the linguistic congress has been attended by more than one thousand linguists, representing every continent. The number of papers presented has grown accordingly (in Geneva, there were more than 700 papers and posters), as has the size of the Proceedings. The next ICL/CIL will take place in September 2018, in Cape Town, South Africa. ? preparing and publishing the Linguistic Bibliography ? Bibliographie Linguistique. CIPL has assumed this responsibility since 1948; this work is now published by Brill Publishers, Leiden. ? participating in and sponsoring special linguistic projects, small conferences and seminars. Most recently, these have concerned Endangered Languages in South Africa, Australia, the UK and the USA, and the relationship between Linguistics and Neuroscience in Brazil. 3. Areas of Special Interest In addition, CIPL is involved in the description of a number of languages in danger of extinction in the Asia?Pacific region, and, equally worthy of note, in the publication of Stephen A. Wurm, Peter M?hlh?usler and Darrell T. Tryon (eds) (1996) Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia and the Americas. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. CIPL has a long-term commitment to work on language endangerment. Its Fifteenth Congress, in Qu?bec in 1992, was devoted to this theme. A series of keynote papers was commissioned from leading experts in each area of the world, and the resulting pre-Congress volume (Robins & Uhlenbeck 1991) was the first worldwide survey of the field. 4. Membership Until now, membership of CIPL has been open to national linguistic institutions and research centres in all countries where these exist. However, the CIPL statutes define it as an international organization. In consequence, CIPL has recently changed its policy. In addition to national linguistic organizations and institutions, it is now possible for international linguistic organizations which specialize in particular subfields of linguistics to apply for membership. For this reason, CIPL has invited ICHL to become a member of CIPL and participate in its activities. CIPL is actively seeking to strengthen its base in the various (sub)disciplines of linguistics, in order to be able to represent and stimulate the field better. Currently, historical linguistics is not well represented in CIPL, and ISHL membership would therefore be welcomed. 5. Organization The board of CIPL consists of Prof. Ferenc Kiefer, President; Prof. David Bradley, Vice-President; and Prof. Piet van Sterkenburg, Secretary-General and Treasurer. CIPL consists of an Executive Committee of eight members and a General Assembly in which all participating national and international organizations are represented and discuss the policy of CIPL in general. 6. Website Further information on all the above is available from the CIPL website: http://www.ciplnet.com/ . 7. Subscription The cost of CIPL membership is currently US $300 per annum. It is proposed that the sum of US $600 (representing two years? membership) should be raised through the charges for each ICHL. This would add approximately US $4 to the conference fee. Camiel Hamans, Member of the General Assembly of CIPL 31 July 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The main purpose of the conference is to enlarge our knowledge and understanding of syntactic diversity. Contributions are expected to be based on first-hand data of individual languages or to adopt a broadly comparative perspective. The discussion of theoretical issues is appreciated to the extent that it helps to elucidate the data and is understandable without prior knowledge of the relevant theory. All theoretical frameworks are equally welcome, and papers that adopt a diachronic or comparative perspective are also welcome, as are papers dealing with morphological or semantic issues, as long as syntactic issues also play a major role. Abstracts of no more than one page (plus possibly one additional page for examples), should be sent in PDF format to swl6.conference at gmail.com by January 31st, 2014, with ''SWL6 abstract'' in the subject line (authors will receive notification of acceptance by March 31st, 2014). Submissions should be anonymous and refrain from self-reference. Please provide contact details (name and email address) and the title of your presentation in the body of the email. Participants may not be involved in more than two abstracts, of which at most one may be single-authored. The conference will be held in English and abstracts must be submitted in English. For further information, please visit the conference website at: http://swl-6.wikidot.com/ -- Silvia Luraghi Universit? di Pavia Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Sezione di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata Strada Nuova 65 I-27100 Pavia tel.: +39/0382/984685 Web page personale: http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=68 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In part to celebrate this, and in part because Historical Phonology is inherently worth celebrating, we are organising a Symposium on Historical Phonology, to be held at the University of Edinburgh on 13th and 14th January 2014. The Handbook aims to gather together perspectives on phonological change and on the reconstruction of past phonological states from across the discipline. The table of contents is available here: http://www.joseph-salmons.net/handbook Contributors to the Handbook have been invited to attend the symposium, and those listed below provisionally intend to attend. The symposium will consist of presentations by some of them, the organisers, and anyone else who would like to attend (see the call for papers below). The intention is for the event to be organised informally but to involve serious discussion of theoretical and practical issues in Historical Phonology. * Ricardo Bermudez-Otero (University of Manchester) * Andras Cser (Pázmány Péter Catholic University) * Patricia J. Donegan (University of Hawai?i) * B. Elan Dresher (University of Toronto) * David Fertig (University at Buffalo) * Mark Hale (Concordia University) * Patrick Honeybone (University of Edinburgh) * Madelyn Kissock (Concordia University) * Roger Lass (University of Cape Town) * Warren Maguire (University of Edinburgh) * Donka Minkova (UCLA) * Geoffrey S. Nathan (Wayne State University) * Martha Ratliff (Wayne State University) * Joseph Salmons (University of Wisconsin, Madison) * Tobias Scheer (Laboratoire BCL, University of Nice) * Daniel Schreier (University of Zurich) * Laura Catharine Smith (Brigham Young University) * Christian Uffmann (University of Sussex) * Adam Ussishkin (University of Arizona) * Marilyn Vihman (University of York) * Andrew Wedel (University of Arizona) * Malcah Yaeger-Dror (University of Arizona) * Alan C.L. Yu (University of Chicago) ------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS We would now like to open participation to the symposium to anyone else with an interest in Historical Phonology. The fee for attendance will be minimal. If you would like to present at the symposium, you will need to send in a 250 word abstract explaining what you would like to discuss by 30th September at the very latest. We anticipate that most abstracts will be awarded a poster presentation slot. If more abstracts are received than can be accommodated, abstracts will be selected by the symposium organisers on the basis of the broadness of their relevance, modified by an impetus to ensure that a wide range of perspectives are represented. We welcome abstracts which discuss any aspect of Historical Phonology. Your abstract should be no more than 250 words long and should explain the issues you aim to discuss and any results or conclusions you have. References may be included, and can be ignored for the word-count. As we hope not to have much, if anything, in the way of abstract reviewing, abstracts should be identified, with the title of your presentation and your name at the top. You should send your abstract as a pdf file by midnight on 30th September (GMT/UTC) as an attachment to an email to: patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk. Please make sure any phonetic font that you use is embedded in the pdf. Please see the symposium's website for further details: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/symposium-on-historical-phonology/ ------------------------ ORGANISERS All those involved in the Handbook have contributed to the symposium in some way. The organisation of the event itself is in the hands of the Handbook's editors: * Patrick Honeybone (University of Edinburgh) * Joseph Salmons (University of Wisconsin, Madison) And of the following: * Rhona Alcorn (University of Edinburgh) * Julian Bradfield (University of Edinburgh) * Pavel Iosad (University of Edinburgh) * James Kirby (University of Edinburgh) * Warren Maguire (University of Edinburgh) * Michael Ramsammy (University of Edinburgh) -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l