ICLaVE 2005 -- Call

[Marc van Oostendorp]

  INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE VARIATION IN EUROPE (ICLAVE 3)
  AMSTERDAM, JUNE 23-25, 2005
  SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS;
  EXTENDED DEADLINE: JANUARY 2, 2005

  The International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE) 
is a biannual meeting addressing any aspect of linguistic variation 
observed in languages spoken in present-day Europe. The conference is 
intended to provide a platform for every scholar interested in issues 
related to this topic, be it as a historical linguist, a 
dialectologist, a sociolinguist, a specialist in grammatical theory, a 
psycholinguist or from any other relevant point of view.

  On June 23-25, 2005, the Meertens Instituut in Amsterdam will host 
IClaVE 3.

   Keynote speakers
          •       Johan Taeldeman (U. of Ghent, Belgium)
          •       Miklós Kontra (U. of Szeged & Research Institute for 
Linguistics / Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)
          •       Shana Poplack (U. of Ottawa, Canada)

  The Scientific Committee for IClaVE invites offers of papers in any 
area of language variation in European languages. The offers should 
contain a clear sketch of the subject matter (research 
question/hypothesis, method, results, discussion) of for a regular 
30-minute Paper (20 minute presentation; 10 minute discussion).

   The criteria for abstract selection will be: conceptual and 
methodological relevance to the study of language variation, 
specifically in European languages; empirical and conceptual substance; 
quality of argumentation; originality. The abstracts will be reviewed 
anonymously by members of the International Scientific Committee a.o.

  WORKSHOPS


  Parallel to the sessions of regular papers, workshops will be held on 
the following topics (these workshops have invited speakers only):

  1  - 'Phonological variation: Crazy rules and lexical exceptions' .
  Speakers: Arto Anttilla (Stanford), Paul Boersma (University of 
Amsterdam),  Eulalia Bonet (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona), Patrik 
Bye (University of Tromsø), Joan Mascaró (Universitat Autónoma de 
Barcelona),  Martin Krämer (University of Tromsø), Maria Rosa Lloret 
(Universitat de Barcelona).
  Organizers: Marc van Oostendorp (Meertens Instituut) & Maria Rosa 
Lloret (Universitat de Barcelona)

  2  - 'Syntactic variation'
  Speakers: Ans van Kemenade (Nijmegen), Miriam Meyerhoff (Edinburgh), 
Sali Tagliamonte (York U - Toronto), Tonjes Veenstra (Berlin), Cecilia 
Poletta/Paola Beninca (Padova)
  Organizers: Leonie Cornips (Meertens Instituut) & Karen Corrigan 
(Newcastle upon Tyne)

  3 - 'English in Europe: from FL to L2'
   Speakers: Ulrich Ammon (Duisburg) , Joy Burrough (Nijmegen), Marc van 
Oostendorp (Meertens Instituut)
  Organizers:  Marinel Gerritsen and Catherine Nickerson (Nijmegen)

  4  - 'Ethnolects'
  Speakers (partly unconfirmed): Thierry Pagnier (Parijs), Sally Boyd 
(Goteborg), Michael Clyne (Melbourne), Peter Auer (Freiburg), Wouter 
Kusters and Hester van Krieken (Amsterdam/Nijmegen)
  Organizers: Pieter Muysken (Nijmegen) & Peter Auer (Freiburg)

  5 - 'Quantitative Analysis of Language Variation in Time and Space'
  Speakers: John Nerbonne (Groningen) & Marco René Spruit (Meertens 
Instituut, Amsterdam), Giuseppe Longobardi et al (Trieste)
  Organizers: Sjef Barbiers & Ton Goeman - Meertens Instituut

  ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

  Participants wishing to present a paper should sent send

  - ONE camera-ready copy of their abstract (150-200 words), indicating 
the title of the paper, author's full name, name and address of 
institution, and e-mail address as well as THREE anonymous copies of 
their abstract.

All submissions should be sent directly via surface mail to the 
Conference Office, OR electronically (as a PDF) to the conference 
e-mail address: iclave3 at meertens.knaw.nl

  Deadline for the submission of abstracts: January 2, 2005.

CONFERENCE OFFICE:

  ICLaVE 3, Amsterdam 2005
   Meertens Instituut (KNAW)
   Postbus 94264
   1090 GG Amsterdam
   Netherlands
   Phone: +31 - (0)20 - 462 85 00
   Fax: +31 - (0)20 - 462 85 55
   e-mail:  iclave3 at meertens.knaw.nl
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