From george.walkden at gmail.com Sat Mar 2 16:49:11 2013 From: george.walkden at gmail.com (George Walkden) Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 16:49:11 +0000 Subject: Linguistic Cycle interview Message-ID: Dear all, Histling-l readers may be interested in this audio interview I did with Elly van Gelderen about her most recent book: Best wishes, - George ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: George Walkden Lecturer in English Linguistics University of Manchester george.walkden at manchester.ac.uk http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/george.walkden/ Office: N1.2 Samuel Alexander Building Tel.: +44 (0)161 275 8905 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk Mon Mar 4 11:43:11 2013 From: Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk (Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 11:43:11 +0000 Subject: PhD funding at the University of Manchester Message-ID: The University of Manchester has a £10,000 Mont Follick studentship (renewable for up to three years) available for a qualified student wanting to work in the areas of Comparative Philology and/or Historical Linguistics. The deadline for applications is 12 April 2013. Interested students are advised to apply for admission into the PhD program by 12 March. For further details, please see: http://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/fees/subjectspecific/linguistics/ ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­_______________________________________________________________ Professor Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, cand.mag., Ph.D., dr.phil. School of Arts, Languages and Cultures The University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL United Kingdom Academic profile Editor of Revue Romane, Acta lingvistica hafniensia, and Studies in Pragmatics -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Against the destroyers of barley. · Wednesday 15 May, 2 pm-4 pm: Rigveda 7.86. Varuna · Thursday 16 May, 4 pm-6 pm: Rigveda 10.34. The gambler The course will take place at Palazzo S. Tommaso, Piazza del Lino - Room L6 On Tuesday 14 May, Prof. Lubotsky will give a lecture on: “The mystery of the RUKI-rule, or the birth of a sound law” (Meeting Room - Linguistic Section) Contact: Prof. Silvia Luraghi - silvia.luraghi at unipv.it - Dr. Alessandra Caviglia - alessandra.caviglia at gmail.com Silvia Luraghi Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Sezione di Linguistica 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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With the LSA's revamp of its publications portfolio, big exciting changes are afoot; we'll keep our readers posted. Best wishes, - George (Editor) ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: George Walkden Lecturer in English Linguistics University of Manchester george.walkden at gmail.com http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/george.walkden/ Office: N1.2 Samuel Alexander Building Tel.: +44 (0)161 275 8905 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From athanasphil at gmail.com Thu Mar 14 23:09:59 2013 From: athanasphil at gmail.com (Thanasis Georgakopoulos) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 01:09:59 +0200 Subject: DGfS Summer School 2013 Message-ID: DGfS Summer School 2013 Language Development: Evolution, Change, Acquisition August 12 - August 31, 2013 Berlin, Germany We invite advanced students (Ph.D. or M.A. level) in linguistics and related fields to attend this 3-week Summer School in August 2013. It is co-organized by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, and the Excellence Cluster 264 - TOPOI. The event contains courses in different areas of linguistics, genetics, anthropology and archaeology, which look at language from the point of view of language evolution, language change, and language acquisition. The courses will be taught by distinguished researchers from Germany, Europe and the USA. The Summer School is of course also open to more advanced researchers who are interested in learning about language development. Courses will consist of 8 sessions about 90 minutes; the workload should correspond to 3 credit points. The language of instruction is English and German. Organisation Programme-Committee: Michael Dunn (MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) Frank Kammerzell (Department for Archeology, HU Berlin) Silvia Kutscher (DGfS/ Institut für Deutsche Sprache) Dejan Matic (MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) Andrea Weber (MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) Local Organisation: Institut für Archäologie / Lehrbereich Ägyptologie // Thanasis Georgakopoulos, Lilli Janotte, Silvia Kutscher Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Linguistik // Elisabeth Verhoeven Please note that early bird registration ends this month on March 31st. For further information and registration, visit: http://www2.hu-berlin.de/dgfs_sommerschule/ Yours sincerely, Thanasis Georgakopoulos -- Thanasis Georgakopoulos Postdoctoral Fellow Excellence Cluster TOPOI Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Unter den Linden 6 10099 Berlin, Germany -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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NEW: the course schedule is now online at: http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/pagina.php?id=269 Admission: We invite PhD students, as well as Postdocs and other young researchers. Advanced MA students will also be considered for admission, based on a written statement of their motivation for attending the school. As all courses will be taught in English, a good knowledge of English is a basic requirement. Fees: There will be a 70 euros registration fee, which will cover lunches and course materials. We have reserved single rooms for participants at the Collegio Cardano; information regarding prices will be given at a later date. Deadline for applications: June 1, 2013 Contacts: Practical information and housing: Alessandra Caviglia alessandra.caviglia at gmail.com Poster session: Eleonora Sausa eleonorasausa at gmail.com Please send applications to: silvia.luraghi at unipv.it Silvia Luraghi Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Sezione di Linguistica 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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Hill British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics Senior Lector in Tibetan, Department of China & Inner Asia (on leave) SOAS, University of London Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, UK Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4220 -- Profile -- http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff46254.php Tibetan Studies at SOAS -- http://www.soas.ac.uk/cia/tibetanstudies/ -- _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From jsalmons at wisc.edu Fri Mar 15 15:19:09 2013 From: jsalmons at wisc.edu (Joseph Salmons) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:19:09 -0500 Subject: relic areas In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi Nathan, You're thinking probably of the Neolinguists. A couple of key works are these: --Bàrtoli, Matteo. 1925. Introduzione alla Neolinguistica. Genève: Olschki. --Bonfante, Giuliano. 1947. The Neolinguistic position. Language 23.344–375. I would look at David Britain's piece in the Handbook of Language Variation and Change too for work on 'geolinguistics' and the new Handbook of Language and Space, ed. by Auer & Schmidt. Best, Joe On Mar 15, 2013, at 8:30 AM, Nathan Hill wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > I have just been reading something that cites Nichols (1992, 1997) for > discussion of “spread zones” and “residual zones”. The handbooks > (Hock, Campbell, etc.) all use the term 'relic zone' and I have a > vague memory that the observations that mountainous areas have more > linguistic diversity and more archaisms goes back to an Italian in the > early 20th century, but my efforts to trace the history of 'relic' > zones is not going well. It appears that Nichols herself did not > compare her "residual zones" to "relic zones". > > I would be grateful for any bibliographic tips. > > Thanks, > > -- > Dr Nathan W. Hill > British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics > Senior Lector in Tibetan, Department of China & Inner Asia (on leave) > SOAS, University of London > Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, UK > Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4220 > -- > Profile -- http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff46254.php > Tibetan Studies at SOAS -- http://www.soas.ac.uk/cia/tibetanstudies/ > -- > _______________________________________________ > Histling-l mailing list > Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu > https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From verhoeve at cms.hu-berlin.de Wed Mar 20 13:34:31 2013 From: verhoeve at cms.hu-berlin.de (Elisabeth Verhoeven) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:34:31 +0100 Subject: DGfS Summer School =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=9CLanguage_Development=3A_Evolution=2C_Change=2C_Acqu?= =?utf-8?Q?isitiAcquisition=E2=80=9D?= Message-ID: DGfS Summer School “Language Development: Evolution, Change, Acquisition” August 12 – 30, 2013 at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin The registration for the Summer School is open now! We invite advanced students (Ph.D. or M.A. level) in linguistics and related fields to attend this 3-week Summer School in August 2013. It is co-organized by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, and the Excellence Cluster 264 - TOPOI. The event contains courses in different areas of linguistics, genetics, anthropology and archeology, which look at language from the point of view of language evolution, language change, and language acquisition. The courses will be taught by distinguished researchers from Germany, Europe and the USA. The Summer School is of course also open to more advanced researchers who are interested in learning about language development. The language of instruction is English and German. For further information see the summer school’s website: http://www2.hu-berlin.de/dgfs_sommerschule/ Courses: The origins and evolution of language (Maggie Tallerman) Empirical approaches to the cultural evolution of language (Hannah Cornish) Genes and language: from molecules to linguistic diversity (Dan Dediu & Sonja Vernes) Emergence and development of writing systems (F. Kammerzell) Empirical approaches to the diversity and disparity of languages (Michael Dunn) Mathematical and Computational Models of Language Evolution (Gerhard Jäger) Linguistics und Human Prehistory (Paul Heggarty) Sign Languages: Evolution and Change (Markus Steinbach) Diachronic change in four millenia: the language history of Egyptian-Coptic (Daniel Werning) Approaches to Historical Morphology and Syntax (Alice C. Harris) Efficiency and extravagance in morphosyntactic change (Martin Haspelmath) Semantic Change (Dirk Geeraerts) Indo-European linguistics revisited (Silvia Luraghi) In search of stability in language contact. (Pieter Muysken) Diachronic Phonology (Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero & Silke Hamann) The social foundation of language change (Daniel Schreier) Sprachtheoretische und didaktische Aspekte des Schriftspracherwerbs (Christa Röber) The acquisition of sign language: influences from modality and experience (Gary Morgan) Theoretical and Empirical approaches to first language acquisition (Heike Behrens) Language attrition and bilingual development (Monika Schmid) Multimodal multilingualism: Gestures, second language acquisition, bilingualism (Marianne Gullberg) Bilingualism and second language learning: Cognitive and neuropsychological perspectives (Janet van Hell) -- Elisabeth Verhoeven Juniorprofessorin für Allgemeine und germanistische Sprachwissenschaft/Syntax Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Postanschrift/postal address: Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin Sitz/office: Dorotheenstraße 24, 10117 Berlin, Raum/room 3.301 phone: +49[30]2093-9796 fax: +49[30]2093-9729 email: elisabeth.verhoeven at cms.hu-berlin.de _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From jsalmons at wisc.edu Mon Mar 25 15:26:17 2013 From: jsalmons at wisc.edu (Joseph Salmons) Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:26:17 -0500 Subject: Call for papers: 4th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, Iceland Message-ID: Dear colleagues. This is to inform you of the fourth workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (with apologies for cross-posting). Call for Papers: The 4th Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas will take place at the University of Iceland on Sept. 19-21, 2013. Keynote Speaker is Maria Polinsky, Professor of Linguistics, Director of the Language Science Lab, Harvard University. The workshop is organized by The Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages and The Centre for Research in the Humanities at the University of Iceland. We invite abstracts for 30-minute presentations on any aspect of the linguistics of heritage languages in the Americas (e.g., structural, generative, historical, sociolinguistic, or experimental). Abstracts can be a maximum of two pages in length (including diagrams, charts, and references), and should be sent anonymously to this email address: heritagelanguages at hi.is The submission deadline is May 31, 2013. We will contact those accepted for presentation by June 30, 2013. Funded by Hugvísindastofnun and SVF For further information please visit out website (under construction) www.conference.hi.is/heritagelanguages/ Links to previous workshops: http://www.psu.edu/dept/heritagelangs/index.htm http://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/about/organization/text-laboratory/news-events/events/2011/feforseminar-norskiamerika.html http://uppermidwesterncultures.blogspot.no/2010/07/investigating-immigrant-languages-in.html Organisers: Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir (University of Iceland) Janne Bondi Johannessen (University of Oslo) Mike Putnam (Penn State University) Joseph Salmons (University of Wisconsin, Madison) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The deadline for applications is 12 April 2013. Interested students are advised to apply for admission into the PhD program by 12 March. For further details, please see: http://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/fees/subjectspecific/linguistics/ ???????????????????_______________________________________________________________ Professor Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, cand.mag., Ph.D., dr.phil. School of Arts, Languages and Cultures The University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL United Kingdom Academic profile Editor of Revue Romane, Acta lingvistica hafniensia, and Studies in Pragmatics -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Wednesday 15 May, 2 pm-4 pm: Rigveda 7.86. Varuna ? Thursday 16 May, 4 pm-6 pm: Rigveda 10.34. The gambler The course will take place at Palazzo S. Tommaso, Piazza del Lino - Room L6 On Tuesday 14 May, Prof. Lubotsky will give a lecture on: ?The mystery of the RUKI-rule, or the birth of a sound law? (Meeting Room - Linguistic Section) Contact: Prof. Silvia Luraghi - silvia.luraghi at unipv.it - Dr. Alessandra Caviglia - alessandra.caviglia at gmail.com Silvia Luraghi Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Sezione di Linguistica 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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With the LSA's revamp of its publications portfolio, big exciting changes are afoot; we'll keep our readers posted. Best wishes, - George (Editor) ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: George Walkden Lecturer in English Linguistics University of Manchester george.walkden at gmail.com http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/george.walkden/ Office: N1.2 Samuel Alexander Building Tel.: +44 (0)161 275 8905 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From athanasphil at gmail.com Thu Mar 14 23:09:59 2013 From: athanasphil at gmail.com (Thanasis Georgakopoulos) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 01:09:59 +0200 Subject: DGfS Summer School 2013 Message-ID: DGfS Summer School 2013 Language Development: Evolution, Change, Acquisition August 12 - August 31, 2013 Berlin, Germany We invite advanced students (Ph.D. or M.A. level) in linguistics and related fields to attend this 3-week Summer School in August 2013. It is co-organized by the Deutsche Gesellschaft f?r Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, and the Excellence Cluster 264 - TOPOI. The event contains courses in different areas of linguistics, genetics, anthropology and archaeology, which look at language from the point of view of language evolution, language change, and language acquisition. The courses will be taught by distinguished researchers from Germany, Europe and the USA. The Summer School is of course also open to more advanced researchers who are interested in learning about language development. Courses will consist of 8 sessions about 90 minutes; the workload should correspond to 3 credit points. The language of instruction is English and German. Organisation Programme-Committee: Michael Dunn (MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) Frank Kammerzell (Department for Archeology, HU Berlin) Silvia Kutscher (DGfS/ Institut f?r Deutsche Sprache) Dejan Matic (MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) Andrea Weber (MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) Local Organisation: Institut f?r Arch?ologie / Lehrbereich ?gyptologie // Thanasis Georgakopoulos, Lilli Janotte, Silvia Kutscher Institut f?r Deutsche Sprache und Linguistik // Elisabeth Verhoeven Please note that early bird registration ends this month on March 31st. For further information and registration, visit: http://www2.hu-berlin.de/dgfs_sommerschule/ Yours sincerely, Thanasis Georgakopoulos -- Thanasis Georgakopoulos Postdoctoral Fellow Excellence Cluster TOPOI Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin Unter den Linden 6 10099 Berlin, Germany -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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NEW: the course schedule is now online at: http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/pagina.php?id=269 Admission: We invite PhD students, as well as Postdocs and other young researchers. Advanced MA students will also be considered for admission, based on a written statement of their motivation for attending the school. As all courses will be taught in English, a good knowledge of English is a basic requirement. Fees: There will be a 70 euros registration fee, which will cover lunches and course materials. We have reserved single rooms for participants at the Collegio Cardano; information regarding prices will be given at a later date. 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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 nathanwhill at gmail.com Fri Mar 15 13:30:08 2013 From: nathanwhill at gmail.com (Nathan Hill) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:30:08 +0000 Subject: relic areas Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I have just been reading something that cites Nichols (1992, 1997) for discussion of ?spread zones? and ?residual zones?. The handbooks (Hock, Campbell, etc.) all use the term 'relic zone' and I have a vague memory that the observations that mountainous areas have more linguistic diversity and more archaisms goes back to an Italian in the early 20th century, but my efforts to trace the history of 'relic' zones is not going well. It appears that Nichols herself did not compare her "residual zones" to "relic zones". I would be grateful for any bibliographic tips. Thanks, -- Dr Nathan W. Hill British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics Senior Lector in Tibetan, Department of China & Inner Asia (on leave) SOAS, University of London Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, UK Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4220 -- Profile -- http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff46254.php Tibetan Studies at SOAS -- http://www.soas.ac.uk/cia/tibetanstudies/ -- _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From jsalmons at wisc.edu Fri Mar 15 15:19:09 2013 From: jsalmons at wisc.edu (Joseph Salmons) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:19:09 -0500 Subject: relic areas In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi Nathan, You're thinking probably of the Neolinguists. A couple of key works are these: --B?rtoli, Matteo. 1925. Introduzione alla Neolinguistica. Gen?ve: Olschki. --Bonfante, Giuliano. 1947. The Neolinguistic position. Language 23.344?375. I would look at David Britain's piece in the Handbook of Language Variation and Change too for work on 'geolinguistics' and the new Handbook of Language and Space, ed. by Auer & Schmidt. Best, Joe On Mar 15, 2013, at 8:30 AM, Nathan Hill wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > I have just been reading something that cites Nichols (1992, 1997) for > discussion of ?spread zones? and ?residual zones?. The handbooks > (Hock, Campbell, etc.) all use the term 'relic zone' and I have a > vague memory that the observations that mountainous areas have more > linguistic diversity and more archaisms goes back to an Italian in the > early 20th century, but my efforts to trace the history of 'relic' > zones is not going well. It appears that Nichols herself did not > compare her "residual zones" to "relic zones". > > I would be grateful for any bibliographic tips. > > Thanks, > > -- > Dr Nathan W. Hill > British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics > Senior Lector in Tibetan, Department of China & Inner Asia (on leave) > SOAS, University of London > Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, UK > Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4220 > -- > Profile -- http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff46254.php > Tibetan Studies at SOAS -- http://www.soas.ac.uk/cia/tibetanstudies/ > -- > _______________________________________________ > Histling-l mailing list > Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu > https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From verhoeve at cms.hu-berlin.de Wed Mar 20 13:34:31 2013 From: verhoeve at cms.hu-berlin.de (Elisabeth Verhoeven) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:34:31 +0100 Subject: DGfS Summer School =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=9CLanguage_Development=3A_Evolution=2C_Change=2C_Acqu?= =?utf-8?Q?isitiAcquisition=E2=80=9D?= Message-ID: DGfS Summer School ?Language Development: Evolution, Change, Acquisition? August 12 ? 30, 2013 at Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin The registration for the Summer School is open now! We invite advanced students (Ph.D. or M.A. level) in linguistics and related fields to attend this 3-week Summer School in August 2013. It is co-organized by the Deutsche Gesellschaft f?r Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, and the Excellence Cluster 264 - TOPOI. The event contains courses in different areas of linguistics, genetics, anthropology and archeology, which look at language from the point of view of language evolution, language change, and language acquisition. The courses will be taught by distinguished researchers from Germany, Europe and the USA. The Summer School is of course also open to more advanced researchers who are interested in learning about language development. The language of instruction is English and German. For further information see the summer school?s website: http://www2.hu-berlin.de/dgfs_sommerschule/ Courses: The origins and evolution of language (Maggie Tallerman) Empirical approaches to the cultural evolution of language (Hannah Cornish) Genes and language: from molecules to linguistic diversity (Dan Dediu & Sonja Vernes) Emergence and development of writing systems (F. Kammerzell) Empirical approaches to the diversity and disparity of languages (Michael Dunn) Mathematical and Computational Models of Language Evolution (Gerhard J?ger) Linguistics und Human Prehistory (Paul Heggarty) Sign Languages: Evolution and Change (Markus Steinbach) Diachronic change in four millenia: the language history of Egyptian-Coptic (Daniel Werning) Approaches to Historical Morphology and Syntax (Alice C. Harris) Efficiency and extravagance in morphosyntactic change (Martin Haspelmath) Semantic Change (Dirk Geeraerts) Indo-European linguistics revisited (Silvia Luraghi) In search of stability in language contact. (Pieter Muysken) Diachronic Phonology (Ricardo Berm?dez-Otero & Silke Hamann) The social foundation of language change (Daniel Schreier) Sprachtheoretische und didaktische Aspekte des Schriftspracherwerbs (Christa R?ber) The acquisition of sign language: influences from modality and experience (Gary Morgan) Theoretical and Empirical approaches to first language acquisition (Heike Behrens) Language attrition and bilingual development (Monika Schmid) Multimodal multilingualism: Gestures, second language acquisition, bilingualism (Marianne Gullberg) Bilingualism and second language learning: Cognitive and neuropsychological perspectives (Janet van Hell) -- Elisabeth Verhoeven Juniorprofessorin f?r Allgemeine und germanistische Sprachwissenschaft/Syntax Institut f?r deutsche Sprache und Linguistik, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin Postanschrift/postal address: Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin Sitz/office: Dorotheenstra?e 24, 10117 Berlin, Raum/room 3.301 phone: +49[30]2093-9796 fax: +49[30]2093-9729 email: elisabeth.verhoeven at cms.hu-berlin.de _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From jsalmons at wisc.edu Mon Mar 25 15:26:17 2013 From: jsalmons at wisc.edu (Joseph Salmons) Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:26:17 -0500 Subject: Call for papers: 4th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, Iceland Message-ID: Dear colleagues. This is to inform you of the fourth workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (with apologies for cross-posting). Call for Papers: The 4th Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas will take place at the University of Iceland on Sept. 19-21, 2013. Keynote Speaker is Maria Polinsky, Professor of Linguistics, Director of the Language Science Lab, Harvard University. The workshop is organized by The Vigd?s Finnbogad?ttir Institute of Foreign Languages and The Centre for Research in the Humanities at the University of Iceland. We invite abstracts for 30-minute presentations on any aspect of the linguistics of heritage languages in the Americas (e.g., structural, generative, historical, sociolinguistic, or experimental). Abstracts can be a maximum of two pages in length (including diagrams, charts, and references), and should be sent anonymously to this email address: heritagelanguages at hi.is The submission deadline is May 31, 2013. We will contact those accepted for presentation by June 30, 2013. Funded by Hugv?sindastofnun and SVF For further information please visit out website (under construction) www.conference.hi.is/heritagelanguages/ Links to previous workshops: http://www.psu.edu/dept/heritagelangs/index.htm http://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/about/organization/text-laboratory/news-events/events/2011/feforseminar-norskiamerika.html http://uppermidwesterncultures.blogspot.no/2010/07/investigating-immigrant-languages-in.html Organisers: Birna Arnbj?rnsd?ttir (University of Iceland) Janne Bondi Johannessen (University of Oslo) Mike Putnam (Penn State University) Joseph Salmons (University of Wisconsin, Madison) -------------- 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