From natacha at ucla.edu Fri Jan 11 00:00:50 2013 From: natacha at ucla.edu (natacha at ucla.edu) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:00:50 -0800 Subject: Workshop on Amerindian Languages in Contact Situations: Spanish-American Perspectives Message-ID: Dear Colleagues: We are inviting contributions to the workshop Amerindian Languages in Contact Situations: Spanish-American Perspectives, to be held at the 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics in Oslo (August 5-9, 2013). I am enclosing the call for papers below and as an attachment to this email; the abstracts can be submitted until February 1, 2013 at http://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/events/ichl2013/workshops/. Best regards, Natalie Operstein *** Workshop Amerindian Languages in Contact Situations: Spanish-American Perspectives Organizers Karen Dakin (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), Natalie Operstein (California State University, Fullerton), Claudia Parodi (University of California, Los Angeles) Call for Papers The linguistic situations in present-day Spanish America have been shaped to a considerable extent by the long-term contact among the indigenous languages and cultures, which has resulted in profound consequences for the participating languages. Although many of the possible lexical, phonological, and structural commonalities among these languages have been explored in prior literature (cf. Campbell, Kaufman, and Smith Stark 1986 and Smith Stark 1994 for Mesoamerica), there are no more recent comparable attempts at a study of the relevant areal traits. Detailed studies placing the structural features of individual languages within their areal contexts are also lacking, as are attempts to place the areal linguistic adaptations within the wider context of human ecology, in the sense proposed by Hill (1978), in sharp contrast with the amount of attention that continues to be received by linguistic areas located in other areas of the world, such as the Balkans, Ethiopia, or Southeast Asia. Another important factor for the history of contact in the area is that since the early sixteenth century, the indigenous languages have been in close contact with Spanish. This proximity has left a profound imprint on the languages, changing each in a variety of ways that range from influences on lexicon and phonology to impact on diverse levels of the languages’ morphology, syntax, and discourse. In the process, regional Spanish, including the national varieties of Latin American Spanish, has undergone a number of changes as well. Finally, reconstruction of linguistic and cultural histories of individual languages is greatly aided by the study of loanword adaptations. By studying phonetic, structural, and semantic changes in the borrowed words, it is possible to trace not only the direction of borrowing and source languages but also the relative chronology of borrowing (linguistic stratigraphy in the sense of Andersen 2003) and the type and nature of past contacts. Inferences drawn from a careful study of loanwords are especially important in the case of unwritten languages and those that only recently have begun to be written, including most languages of Hispano-America. The proposed workshop will combine these research threads by focusing on the diachronic aspects of language contact in Spanish America. Its principal goals are to spark an interest in further study of the possible areal traits, especially as they relate to the wider issue of area-level human adaptations; to highlight the importance of contact-induced changes observable in these areas for contact and diachronic linguistics more generally; to contribute to the study of linguistic stratigraphy; and to provide a context for a meaningful dialogue between students of the indigenous languages and those of Spanish. In addition, the workshop seeks to bring together scholars from different language backgrounds, linguistic traditions, and theoretical orientations with the aim of fostering collaborative research on these complex areas. References Andersen, Henning, ed. 2003. Language Contacts in Prehistory: Studies in Stratigraphy. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Campbell, Lyle, Terrence Kaufman, and Thomas C. Smith-Stark. 1986. Meso-America as a Linguistic Area. Language 62: 530-558. Hill, Jane H. 1978. Language Contact Systems and Human Adaptations. Journal of Anthropological Research 34: 1-26. Smith-Stark, Thomas C. 1994. Mesoamerican Calques. Carolyn J. MacKay and Verónica Vázquez, eds. Investigaciones lingüísticas en Mesoamérica, 15-50. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ICHL Call for Papers.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 10585 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From Miriam.Bouzouita at UGent.be Fri Jan 11 17:17:36 2013 From: Miriam.Bouzouita at UGent.be (Miriam Bouzouita) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:17:36 +0100 Subject: Diachronic Corpora and Language Change Workshop at ICHL21 Message-ID: Full Title of Workshop: Diachronic Corpora and Language Change Date: 05-Aug-2013 Location: Oslo, Norway Contact Person: Thorhallur Eythorsson Meeting Email: tolli at hi.is Web Site: http://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/events/ichl2013/workshops/ Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2013 Meeting Description: At the 21st International Conference of Historical Linguistics (ICHL21), Oslo, there will be a full-day workshop entitled Diachronic Corpora and Language Change. There are currently several large-scale databases of historical texts being developed, aiming at a linguistic analysis of a great variety of text corpora. These databases are annotated for linguistic information (primarily morphology and syntax) and provide unique resources for eResearch into older languages. A number of the projects form a network of partner projects, with well-established ties which are being consolidated further in within the Diachronic Syntax Corpora (DiaSynCorp) network (T. Eythórsson, PI). The databases that have been developed in these projects enable an integrated search involving different factors from several modules. Typically, they are searchable in terms of syntax and morphology, but the PROIEL project in Oslo (and its sister project ISWOC) includes information structure as well. Outside the PROIEL project there are other groups interested in using the paralllel corpora provided by Bible translations, such as the Biblia Medieval. The workshop has the following three objectives: - First, to enhance cross-linguistic research in syntax and information structure with respect to discourse-status annotation (as in PROIEL). - Second, to explore further the development of parallel corpora of selected texts from a variety of (old and modern) languages for machine translation, parser adaptation, and other uses. Special emphasis will be placed on parallel bible texts, given the fact that these are an excellent data source for historical linguists. - Third, to investigate specific linguistic phenomena in a crosslinguistic comparison by means of parallel corpora. These linguistic phenomena involve primarily syntax (word order and phrase structure) and information structure, but also other aspects of grammar (e.g. morphology, prosody). The workshop will be a full-day workshop consisting of three parts: - A keynote presentation - A main section with talks resulting from an open call - An open discussion about future developments in historical-comparative linguistics from the perspective of view of eResearch methodology and analysis Call for Papers: The focus of this workshop is on eResearch methodology and analysis in historical-comparative linguistics. We invite the submission of papers by researchers with a mix of competences in linguistics and relevant computational linguistics and IT infrastructure development. The research topics to be treated in the workshop include the following points in historical linguistic analysis: - Studies of diachronic phenomena in syntax and semantics/pragmatics based on annotated corpora, providing replicable research using up-to-date statistical methods - Comparative linguistics by means of parallel corpora, for example bible texts - Development of diachronic corpora and corpora of historical languages, including questions of annotation - The possibilities of integrated search in diachronic corpora (morphology, syntax, pragmatics; phonology, prosody, meter) - Methodological studies - how can corpus linguistics contribute to diachronic linguistics? - Ways to make sophisticated diachronic corpora available to philologists and researchers in related fields. We invite two-page abstracts (plus a third page for references) for the first version (pdf-format). Submissions should include: title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author’s email address. Please mark your submission with the abbreviation ‘DiaCorpChange’. Abstracts should be submitted via our EasyChair page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ichl21 If you have problems using EasyChair, please contact us at ichl-oslo at ifikk.uio.no. The deadline for submissions to ICHL is 1 February 2013. We expect to send notifications by 1 April 2013. Organizing Committee: Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg Miriam Bouzouita, Ghent University/Cambridge University Andrés Enrique-Arias, University of the Balearic Islands Thórhallur Eythórsson, University of Iceland, contact person Dag Haug, University of Oslo Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, University of Iceland -- Dr Miriam Bouzouita Lecturer in Spanish Linguistics, Ghent University Affiliated Lecturer, University of Cambridge Email: miriam.bouzouita at ugent.be, mb829 at cam.ac.uk www.bibliamedieval.es _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From johanna.barddal at uib.no Wed Jan 23 17:14:03 2013 From: johanna.barddal at uib.no (johanna.barddal at uib.no) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:14:03 +0100 Subject: Inquiry: Changes in meaning and argument structure of verbs! Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings! I have a student who is comparing predicates in Old and Modern Russian, in particular to which degree changes in argument and predicate structure is concomitant with changes in meaning. There is a consensus in the field that changes in meaning can also result in changes in argument structure, but I wonder to which degree this has been documented historically. I would therefore appreciate references to any work on this topic that you guys might know of. I'll post a summary of the responses for the list. Best, Jóhanna Barðdal =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Jóhanna Barðdal Research Associate Professor Coeditor of the Journal of Historical Linguistics Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen P.O. box 7805 NO-5020 Bergen Norway johanna.barddal at uib.no Phone +47-55582438 (work) Phone +47-55201117 (home) Fax +47-55589660 (work) http://org.uib.no/iecastp/barddal _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From dwew2 at cam.ac.uk Tue Jan 29 10:45:22 2013 From: dwew2 at cam.ac.uk (David Willis) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:45:22 +0000 Subject: Venue for ICHL 2017 Message-ID: The ISHL nominating committee expects to make a recommendation to the Society by the end of April regarding the venue of the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics in 2017. Formally this is done by nominating an individual from that institution as President of the Society/Conference Director for 2017. Historical linguists are therefore invited to consider whether they would like to host the conference at their institution and submit nominations if they are interested. A formal proposal to host the conference requires a brief (one-page) statement describing the suitability of the institution/city and the proposed conference arrangements, and a formal letter of support from a senior administrator at the University stating that the institution is happy to host the conference (a financial guarantee is not required). Formal proposals should be sent to myself as Chair of the Nominating Committee, copied to JC Smith as Secretary of the Society by the end of March. We have received several expressions of interest to date; any institution that has not yet made us aware of its intention to bid should establish informal contact before then. Since the 2013 conference will be in Oslo, and the 2015 conference in Naples, the committee has expressed the wish to hold the 2017 conference outside of Europe. Previous and forthcoming venues this century are listed below: 2001 Melbourne, Vic. (XV) (Barry Blake) 2003 Copenhagen (XVI) (Lene Schøsler) 2005 Madison, Wisc. (XVII) (Thomas Cravens & Joseph Salmons) 2007 Montréal, Qué. (XVIII) (Fernande Dupuis) 2009 Nijmegen (XIX) (Ans van Kemenade) 2011 Osaka (XX) (Ritsuko Kikusawa) 2013 Oslo (XXI) (Dag Trygve Truslew Haug) 2015 Naples (XXII) (Michela Cennamo) Best wishes David Willis (Chair of the NominatingCommittee, International Society for Historical Linguistics) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Dr David Willis* University Senior Lecturer Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge Fellow in Linguistics Selwyn College , Cambridge CB3 9DQ Tel: +44 1223 335885 Office: 23 West Road, Rm 5 Honorary Secretary,Linguistics Association of Great Britain Please use college address for postal correspondence. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- 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 Miriam.Bouzouita at UGent.be Tue Jan 29 15:31:10 2013 From: Miriam.Bouzouita at UGent.be (Miriam Bouzouita) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:31:10 +0100 Subject: Diachronic Corpora and Language Change Workshop at ICHL21 In-Reply-To: <50F04930.3030705@UGent.be> Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I would like to remind you that the submission deadline for abstracts for the Diachronic Corpora and Language Change workshop, organised as part of the International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL21), is the 1st of February. Abstracts of two pages can be submitted through the EasyChair website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ichl21 We expect to send notifications by the 1st of April, 2013. Best wishes, Miriam Bouzouita ------- Full Title of Workshop: Diachronic Corpora and Language Change Date: 05-Aug-2013 Location: Oslo, Norway Contact Person: Thorhallur Eythorsson Meeting Email: tolli at hi.is Web Site: http://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/events/ichl2013/workshops/ Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2013 Meeting Description: At the 21st International Conference of Historical Linguistics (ICHL21), Oslo, there will be a full-day workshop entitled Diachronic Corpora and Language Change. There are currently several large-scale databases of historical texts being developed, aiming at a linguistic analysis of a great variety of text corpora. These databases are annotated for linguistic information (primarily morphology and syntax) and provide unique resources for eResearch into older languages. A number of the projects form a network of partner projects, with well-established ties which are being consolidated further in within the Diachronic Syntax Corpora (DiaSynCorp) network (T. Eythórsson, PI). The databases that have been developed in these projects enable an integrated search involving different factors from several modules. Typically, they are searchable in terms of syntax and morphology, but the PROIEL project in Oslo (and its sister project ISWOC) includes information structure as well. Outside the PROIEL project there are other groups interested in using the paralllel corpora provided by Bible translations, such as the Biblia Medieval. The workshop has the following three objectives: - First, to enhance cross-linguistic research in syntax and information structure with respect to discourse-status annotation (as in PROIEL). - Second, to explore further the development of parallel corpora of selected texts from a variety of (old and modern) languages for machine translation, parser adaptation, and other uses. Special emphasis will be placed on parallel bible texts, given the fact that these are an excellent data source for historical linguists. - Third, to investigate specific linguistic phenomena in a crosslinguistic comparison by means of parallel corpora. These linguistic phenomena involve primarily syntax (word order and phrase structure) and information structure, but also other aspects of grammar (e.g. morphology, prosody). The workshop will be a full-day workshop consisting of three parts: - A keynote presentation - A main section with talks resulting from an open call - An open discussion about future developments in historical-comparative linguistics from the perspective of view of eResearch methodology and analysis Call for Papers: The focus of this workshop is on eResearch methodology and analysis in historical-comparative linguistics. We invite the submission of papers by researchers with a mix of competences in linguistics and relevant computational linguistics and IT infrastructure development. The research topics to be treated in the workshop include the following points in historical linguistic analysis: - Studies of diachronic phenomena in syntax and semantics/pragmatics based on annotated corpora, providing replicable research using up-to-date statistical methods - Comparative linguistics by means of parallel corpora, for example bible texts - Development of diachronic corpora and corpora of historical languages, including questions of annotation - The possibilities of integrated search in diachronic corpora (morphology, syntax, pragmatics; phonology, prosody, meter) - Methodological studies - how can corpus linguistics contribute to diachronic linguistics? - Ways to make sophisticated diachronic corpora available to philologists and researchers in related fields. We invite two-page abstracts (plus a third page for references) for the first version (pdf-format). Submissions should include: title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author’s email address. Please mark your submission with the abbreviation ‘DiaCorpChange’. Abstracts should be submitted via our EasyChair page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ichl21 If you have problems using EasyChair, please contact us at ichl-oslo at ifikk.uio.no. The deadline for submissions to ICHL is 1 February 2013. We expect to send notifications by 1 April 2013. Organizing Committee: Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg Miriam Bouzouita, Ghent University/Cambridge University Andrés Enrique-Arias, University of the Balearic Islands Thórhallur Eythórsson, University of Iceland, contact person Dag Haug, University of Oslo Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, University of Iceland -- Dr Miriam Bouzouita Lecturer in Spanish Linguistics, Ghent University Affiliated Lecturer, University of Cambridge Email: miriam.bouzouita at ugent.be, mb829 at cam.ac.uk www.bibliamedieval.es _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From natacha at ucla.edu Fri Jan 11 00:00:50 2013 From: natacha at ucla.edu (natacha at ucla.edu) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:00:50 -0800 Subject: Workshop on Amerindian Languages in Contact Situations: Spanish-American Perspectives Message-ID: Dear Colleagues: We are inviting contributions to the workshop Amerindian Languages in Contact Situations: Spanish-American Perspectives, to be held at the 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics in Oslo (August 5-9, 2013). I am enclosing the call for papers below and as an attachment to this email; the abstracts can be submitted until February 1, 2013 at http://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/events/ichl2013/workshops/. Best regards, Natalie Operstein *** Workshop Amerindian Languages in Contact Situations: Spanish-American Perspectives Organizers Karen Dakin (Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico), Natalie Operstein (California State University, Fullerton), Claudia Parodi (University of California, Los Angeles) Call for Papers The linguistic situations in present-day Spanish America have been shaped to a considerable extent by the long-term contact among the indigenous languages and cultures, which has resulted in profound consequences for the participating languages. Although many of the possible lexical, phonological, and structural commonalities among these languages have been explored in prior literature (cf. Campbell, Kaufman, and Smith Stark 1986 and Smith Stark 1994 for Mesoamerica), there are no more recent comparable attempts at a study of the relevant areal traits. Detailed studies placing the structural features of individual languages within their areal contexts are also lacking, as are attempts to place the areal linguistic adaptations within the wider context of human ecology, in the sense proposed by Hill (1978), in sharp contrast with the amount of attention that continues to be received by linguistic areas located in other areas of the world, such as the Balkans, Ethiopia, or Southeast Asia. Another important factor for the history of contact in the area is that since the early sixteenth century, the indigenous languages have been in close contact with Spanish. This proximity has left a profound imprint on the languages, changing each in a variety of ways that range from influences on lexicon and phonology to impact on diverse levels of the languages? morphology, syntax, and discourse. In the process, regional Spanish, including the national varieties of Latin American Spanish, has undergone a number of changes as well. Finally, reconstruction of linguistic and cultural histories of individual languages is greatly aided by the study of loanword adaptations. By studying phonetic, structural, and semantic changes in the borrowed words, it is possible to trace not only the direction of borrowing and source languages but also the relative chronology of borrowing (linguistic stratigraphy in the sense of Andersen 2003) and the type and nature of past contacts. Inferences drawn from a careful study of loanwords are especially important in the case of unwritten languages and those that only recently have begun to be written, including most languages of Hispano-America. The proposed workshop will combine these research threads by focusing on the diachronic aspects of language contact in Spanish America. Its principal goals are to spark an interest in further study of the possible areal traits, especially as they relate to the wider issue of area-level human adaptations; to highlight the importance of contact-induced changes observable in these areas for contact and diachronic linguistics more generally; to contribute to the study of linguistic stratigraphy; and to provide a context for a meaningful dialogue between students of the indigenous languages and those of Spanish. In addition, the workshop seeks to bring together scholars from different language backgrounds, linguistic traditions, and theoretical orientations with the aim of fostering collaborative research on these complex areas. References Andersen, Henning, ed. 2003. Language Contacts in Prehistory: Studies in Stratigraphy. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Campbell, Lyle, Terrence Kaufman, and Thomas C. Smith-Stark. 1986. Meso-America as a Linguistic Area. Language 62: 530-558. Hill, Jane H. 1978. Language Contact Systems and Human Adaptations. Journal of Anthropological Research 34: 1-26. Smith-Stark, Thomas C. 1994. Mesoamerican Calques. Carolyn J. MacKay and Ver?nica V?zquez, eds. Investigaciones ling??sticas en Mesoam?rica, 15-50. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ICHL Call for Papers.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 10585 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From Miriam.Bouzouita at UGent.be Fri Jan 11 17:17:36 2013 From: Miriam.Bouzouita at UGent.be (Miriam Bouzouita) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:17:36 +0100 Subject: Diachronic Corpora and Language Change Workshop at ICHL21 Message-ID: Full Title of Workshop: Diachronic Corpora and Language Change Date: 05-Aug-2013 Location: Oslo, Norway Contact Person: Thorhallur Eythorsson Meeting Email: tolli at hi.is Web Site: http://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/events/ichl2013/workshops/ Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2013 Meeting Description: At the 21st International Conference of Historical Linguistics (ICHL21), Oslo, there will be a full-day workshop entitled Diachronic Corpora and Language Change. There are currently several large-scale databases of historical texts being developed, aiming at a linguistic analysis of a great variety of text corpora. These databases are annotated for linguistic information (primarily morphology and syntax) and provide unique resources for eResearch into older languages. A number of the projects form a network of partner projects, with well-established ties which are being consolidated further in within the Diachronic Syntax Corpora (DiaSynCorp) network (T. Eyth?rsson, PI). The databases that have been developed in these projects enable an integrated search involving different factors from several modules. Typically, they are searchable in terms of syntax and morphology, but the PROIEL project in Oslo (and its sister project ISWOC) includes information structure as well. Outside the PROIEL project there are other groups interested in using the paralllel corpora provided by Bible translations, such as the Biblia Medieval. The workshop has the following three objectives: - First, to enhance cross-linguistic research in syntax and information structure with respect to discourse-status annotation (as in PROIEL). - Second, to explore further the development of parallel corpora of selected texts from a variety of (old and modern) languages for machine translation, parser adaptation, and other uses. Special emphasis will be placed on parallel bible texts, given the fact that these are an excellent data source for historical linguists. - Third, to investigate specific linguistic phenomena in a crosslinguistic comparison by means of parallel corpora. These linguistic phenomena involve primarily syntax (word order and phrase structure) and information structure, but also other aspects of grammar (e.g. morphology, prosody). The workshop will be a full-day workshop consisting of three parts: - A keynote presentation - A main section with talks resulting from an open call - An open discussion about future developments in historical-comparative linguistics from the perspective of view of eResearch methodology and analysis Call for Papers: The focus of this workshop is on eResearch methodology and analysis in historical-comparative linguistics. We invite the submission of papers by researchers with a mix of competences in linguistics and relevant computational linguistics and IT infrastructure development. The research topics to be treated in the workshop include the following points in historical linguistic analysis: - Studies of diachronic phenomena in syntax and semantics/pragmatics based on annotated corpora, providing replicable research using up-to-date statistical methods - Comparative linguistics by means of parallel corpora, for example bible texts - Development of diachronic corpora and corpora of historical languages, including questions of annotation - The possibilities of integrated search in diachronic corpora (morphology, syntax, pragmatics; phonology, prosody, meter) - Methodological studies - how can corpus linguistics contribute to diachronic linguistics? - Ways to make sophisticated diachronic corpora available to philologists and researchers in related fields. We invite two-page abstracts (plus a third page for references) for the first version (pdf-format). Submissions should include: title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author?s email address. Please mark your submission with the abbreviation ?DiaCorpChange?. Abstracts should be submitted via our EasyChair page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ichl21 If you have problems using EasyChair, please contact us at ichl-oslo at ifikk.uio.no. The deadline for submissions to ICHL is 1 February 2013. We expect to send notifications by 1 April 2013. Organizing Committee: Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg Miriam Bouzouita, Ghent University/Cambridge University Andr?s Enrique-Arias, University of the Balearic Islands Th?rhallur Eyth?rsson, University of Iceland, contact person Dag Haug, University of Oslo Eir?kur R?gnvaldsson, University of Iceland -- Dr Miriam Bouzouita Lecturer in Spanish Linguistics, Ghent University Affiliated Lecturer, University of Cambridge Email: miriam.bouzouita at ugent.be, mb829 at cam.ac.uk www.bibliamedieval.es _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From johanna.barddal at uib.no Wed Jan 23 17:14:03 2013 From: johanna.barddal at uib.no (johanna.barddal at uib.no) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:14:03 +0100 Subject: Inquiry: Changes in meaning and argument structure of verbs! Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings! I have a student who is comparing predicates in Old and Modern Russian, in particular to which degree changes in argument and predicate structure is concomitant with changes in meaning. There is a consensus in the field that changes in meaning can also result in changes in argument structure, but I wonder to which degree this has been documented historically. I would therefore appreciate references to any work on this topic that you guys might know of. I'll post a summary of the responses for the list. Best, J?hanna Bar?dal =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ J?hanna Bar?dal Research Associate Professor Coeditor of the Journal of Historical Linguistics Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen P.O. box 7805 NO-5020 Bergen Norway johanna.barddal at uib.no Phone +47-55582438 (work) Phone +47-55201117 (home) Fax +47-55589660 (work) http://org.uib.no/iecastp/barddal _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From dwew2 at cam.ac.uk Tue Jan 29 10:45:22 2013 From: dwew2 at cam.ac.uk (David Willis) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:45:22 +0000 Subject: Venue for ICHL 2017 Message-ID: The ISHL nominating committee expects to make a recommendation to the Society by the end of April regarding the venue of the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics in 2017. Formally this is done by nominating an individual from that institution as President of the Society/Conference Director for 2017. Historical linguists are therefore invited to consider whether they would like to host the conference at their institution and submit nominations if they are interested. A formal proposal to host the conference requires a brief (one-page) statement describing the suitability of the institution/city and the proposed conference arrangements, and a formal letter of support from a senior administrator at the University stating that the institution is happy to host the conference (a financial guarantee is not required). Formal proposals should be sent to myself as Chair of the Nominating Committee, copied to JC Smith as Secretary of the Society by the end of March. We have received several expressions of interest to date; any institution that has not yet made us aware of its intention to bid should establish informal contact before then. Since the 2013 conference will be in Oslo, and the 2015 conference in Naples, the committee has expressed the wish to hold the 2017 conference outside of Europe. Previous and forthcoming venues this century are listed below: 2001 Melbourne, Vic. (XV) (Barry Blake) 2003 Copenhagen (XVI) (Lene Sch?sler) 2005 Madison, Wisc. (XVII) (Thomas Cravens & Joseph Salmons) 2007 Montr?al, Qu?. (XVIII) (Fernande Dupuis) 2009 Nijmegen (XIX) (Ans van Kemenade) 2011 Osaka (XX) (Ritsuko Kikusawa) 2013 Oslo (XXI) (Dag Trygve Truslew Haug) 2015 Naples (XXII) (Michela Cennamo) Best wishes David Willis (Chair of the NominatingCommittee, International Society for Historical Linguistics) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Dr David Willis* University Senior Lecturer Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge Fellow in Linguistics Selwyn College , Cambridge CB3 9DQ Tel: +44 1223 335885 Office: 23 West Road, Rm 5 Honorary Secretary,Linguistics Association of Great Britain Please use college address for postal correspondence. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- 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 Miriam.Bouzouita at UGent.be Tue Jan 29 15:31:10 2013 From: Miriam.Bouzouita at UGent.be (Miriam Bouzouita) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:31:10 +0100 Subject: Diachronic Corpora and Language Change Workshop at ICHL21 In-Reply-To: <50F04930.3030705@UGent.be> Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I would like to remind you that the submission deadline for abstracts for the Diachronic Corpora and Language Change workshop, organised as part of the International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL21), is the 1st of February. Abstracts of two pages can be submitted through the EasyChair website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ichl21 We expect to send notifications by the 1st of April, 2013. Best wishes, Miriam Bouzouita ------- Full Title of Workshop: Diachronic Corpora and Language Change Date: 05-Aug-2013 Location: Oslo, Norway Contact Person: Thorhallur Eythorsson Meeting Email: tolli at hi.is Web Site: http://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/events/ichl2013/workshops/ Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2013 Meeting Description: At the 21st International Conference of Historical Linguistics (ICHL21), Oslo, there will be a full-day workshop entitled Diachronic Corpora and Language Change. There are currently several large-scale databases of historical texts being developed, aiming at a linguistic analysis of a great variety of text corpora. These databases are annotated for linguistic information (primarily morphology and syntax) and provide unique resources for eResearch into older languages. A number of the projects form a network of partner projects, with well-established ties which are being consolidated further in within the Diachronic Syntax Corpora (DiaSynCorp) network (T. Eyth?rsson, PI). The databases that have been developed in these projects enable an integrated search involving different factors from several modules. Typically, they are searchable in terms of syntax and morphology, but the PROIEL project in Oslo (and its sister project ISWOC) includes information structure as well. Outside the PROIEL project there are other groups interested in using the paralllel corpora provided by Bible translations, such as the Biblia Medieval. The workshop has the following three objectives: - First, to enhance cross-linguistic research in syntax and information structure with respect to discourse-status annotation (as in PROIEL). - Second, to explore further the development of parallel corpora of selected texts from a variety of (old and modern) languages for machine translation, parser adaptation, and other uses. Special emphasis will be placed on parallel bible texts, given the fact that these are an excellent data source for historical linguists. - Third, to investigate specific linguistic phenomena in a crosslinguistic comparison by means of parallel corpora. These linguistic phenomena involve primarily syntax (word order and phrase structure) and information structure, but also other aspects of grammar (e.g. morphology, prosody). The workshop will be a full-day workshop consisting of three parts: - A keynote presentation - A main section with talks resulting from an open call - An open discussion about future developments in historical-comparative linguistics from the perspective of view of eResearch methodology and analysis Call for Papers: The focus of this workshop is on eResearch methodology and analysis in historical-comparative linguistics. We invite the submission of papers by researchers with a mix of competences in linguistics and relevant computational linguistics and IT infrastructure development. The research topics to be treated in the workshop include the following points in historical linguistic analysis: - Studies of diachronic phenomena in syntax and semantics/pragmatics based on annotated corpora, providing replicable research using up-to-date statistical methods - Comparative linguistics by means of parallel corpora, for example bible texts - Development of diachronic corpora and corpora of historical languages, including questions of annotation - The possibilities of integrated search in diachronic corpora (morphology, syntax, pragmatics; phonology, prosody, meter) - Methodological studies - how can corpus linguistics contribute to diachronic linguistics? - Ways to make sophisticated diachronic corpora available to philologists and researchers in related fields. We invite two-page abstracts (plus a third page for references) for the first version (pdf-format). Submissions should include: title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author?s email address. Please mark your submission with the abbreviation ?DiaCorpChange?. Abstracts should be submitted via our EasyChair page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ichl21 If you have problems using EasyChair, please contact us at ichl-oslo at ifikk.uio.no. The deadline for submissions to ICHL is 1 February 2013. We expect to send notifications by 1 April 2013. Organizing Committee: Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg Miriam Bouzouita, Ghent University/Cambridge University Andr?s Enrique-Arias, University of the Balearic Islands Th?rhallur Eyth?rsson, University of Iceland, contact person Dag Haug, University of Oslo Eir?kur R?gnvaldsson, University of Iceland -- Dr Miriam Bouzouita Lecturer in Spanish Linguistics, Ghent University Affiliated Lecturer, University of Cambridge Email: miriam.bouzouita at ugent.be, mb829 at cam.ac.uk www.bibliamedieval.es _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l